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Trooper GEORGE RIDGEON

Service Number: 321797
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot A Grave 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold William and Annie Ridgeon, of Strensall, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE WAS THERE TO ANSWER HIS COUNTRY'S CALL
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Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 8
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