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Captain EDWARD SIMPSON ROBERTS

Service Number: 121775
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 June 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO

XVIII. B. 6.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. Donald Edward Roberts, M.C., J.P. and Mary Margaret Roberts, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. His brothers Gerald Philip and Donald Michael also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO
Italy
Number of casualties: 2317
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