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Flying Officer DESMOND ROYCE GATWARD

Service Number: 139761
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 17 December 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY

V. D. 85.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Edward and Edith Audine Gatward, of Cambridge.
  • Personal Inscription MY SOUL SHALL DWELL AMONG THE LOVELY THINGS
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Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1591
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