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Driver BASIL V. RICHES

Service Number: T/50636
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 16 January 1940

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHAMBIERES FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, METZ

Grave 5.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4 Field Amb Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick and Edith Riches, of Heacham, Norfolk; husband of Daisy Winifred Riches, of Heacham.
  • Personal Inscription WHILE LIFE AND MEMORIES LAST WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

CHAMBIERES FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, METZ
Moselle France
Number of casualties: 111
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