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Private CYRIL VAINES

Service Number: 4742858
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died Between 24 May 1940 and 27 May 1940

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Plot 2. Row C. Grave 44.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elizabeth Vaines, of Hoyland, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription NO ONE HE LOVED WAS BY HIS SIDE TO HEAR HIS LAST GOOD-BYE
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1031
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