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Captain RICHARD NIGEL JAMES RUTHERFORD

Service Number: 53228
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

1/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY

VI. A. 30. Sp. Mem.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of E. Young James Rutherford and Eva Mary Rutherford; husband of Pamela Mary Frances Rutherford, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription "AND THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR SONS, THEY GAVE, THEIR IMMORTALITY"
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Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 233
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