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Trooper ALFRED SMITH

Service Number: 319041
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

11th Hussars

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. G. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Smith, and of Emily Smith, of Lower Clapton, London.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN HIS HOPES WERE BEST HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ENGLAND. GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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