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Private JOSEPH RAYNER

Service Number: 5126287
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. F. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Alice Rayner, of Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED & THOSE HE LOVED REMEMBER. MOM AND SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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