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Private KENNETH JOHN ORTON

Service Number: 5111566
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 1. Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Harriet Orton, of Bell Green, Coventry.
  • Personal Inscription NOT TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER. MAM, DAD, MOLLY, LOUIS, SHINA
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Buried or commemorated at

VERNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Eure France
Number of casualties: 13
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