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Corporal ERIC WHAITES

Service Number: 4614968
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY

IX. C. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Catherine Whaites, of Settle, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR MEMORY KEEP US EVER NEAR TO HIM WE LOVED SO DEAR. R.I.P.

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Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2175
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