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Serjeant ROBERT PORTEOUS

Service Number: 7889445
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ORMEIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

British Plot, grave 2.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Janet Cairns Porteous, of Inverkeithing, Fife; husband of Isabella Porteous, of Inverkeithing.
  • Personal Inscription "HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY; THE LORD GOD WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM ALL FACES"
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