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Lance Corporal HAROLD GEORGE ALFRED ORFORD

Service Number: 5885107
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northamptonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died Between 23 May 1940 and 01 June 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. Harold Orford, formerly of R.A.O.C., and Winifred Elizabeth Orford, of Smeeth, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVES, AND LOVES, AND WAITS. 'TIS DEATH IS DEAD, NOT HE "PLUS ULTRA"
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Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 37
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