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Gunner ERIC TOM ORCHARD

Service Number: 978911
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

15 Medium Regt.

Date of Death

Died 09 August 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XXII. G. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Joan Jessie Orchard, of Finsbury Park, Middlesex, England.
  • Personal Inscription OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU. REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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