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Private ROBERT STEPHEN LANCASTER

Service Number: 14407416
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IIA. E. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Kitching Lancaster and Oliva Lancaster, of Scarthoe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription THE THOUGHT OF YOU IS LIKE A MELODY A SWEET HAUNTING ECHO FAR, YET EVER NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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