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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN YEADON ORMSBY

Service Number: 573
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 22 November 1941

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASMARA WAR CEMETERY

4. F. 4.

Eritrea

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Thomas Ormsby, D.S.O. and of Lucy Ormsby (nee Thompson); husband of Louise Gwendolyn Ormsby (nee Lynch), of Bray, Co. Wicklow, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

ASMARA WAR CEMETERY
Eritrea
Number of casualties: 284
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