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Private GERALD HINGSTON

Service Number: 14206044
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 11 July 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN

Row B. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Foster-son of Mrs. C. J. Harding, of Truro, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription HE SACRIFICED HIS GLORIOUS YOUTH FOR HONOUR LIBERTY AND TRUTH
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Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 48
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