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Private GEORGE EDWIN TRANTER

Service Number: 4972462
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MARQUISE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row C. Grave 24.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Tranter and of Louisa Tranter; husband of Marjorie Tranter (nee Parsons), of St. Sampson's, Guernsey, Channel Islands.
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Buried or commemorated at

MARQUISE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 167
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