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Corporal ROBERT RILEY

Service Number: 7017332
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Ulster Rifles

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. H. 17.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Patrick and Mary Jane Riley, of Kimblesworth, Co. Durham; husband of Rhoda Riley.
  • Personal Inscription THE TRAGIC WAY HE HAD TO DIE WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER AND WONDER WHY R.I.P.

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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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