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Second Lieutenant RICHARD NELSON ROYCROFT

Service Number: 129941
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

Date of Death

Died 17 March 1941

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY

3. C. 5.

Eritrea

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Nelson Wolfe Roycroft and Doris Kenworthy Roycroft, of Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription SO GALLANT AND SO BRAVE A SOUL COULD NEVER PASS AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY
Eritrea
Number of casualties: 440
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