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Private BASIL EDGAR TAYLOR

Service Number: 6410789
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IA. L. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney Edgar and Hilda Blanche Taylor, of Ilford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED AS HE LIVED, GLORIOUSLY & COURAGEOUSLY
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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