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Lance Corporal VERNON JOSEPH EMPSON

Service Number: R/4866323
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 January 1941

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY

2. D. 2.

Eritrea

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jerimiah John Empson, and of May Ethel Empson, of Raylton, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

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Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY
Eritrea
Number of casualties: 440
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