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Gunner GEORGE KING PRIEST

Service Number: 1096682
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

86 (The Hertfordshire Yeo.) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XIV. L. 8.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Barker Priest and Minnie Dryden Priest, of Willington, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription IN MY SORROW HE STANDS BY MY SIDE AND WHISPERS "DEAR MOTHER DEATH CANNOT DIVIDE"
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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