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Lance Corporal DENIS HENRY MATTHEWS

Service Number: 14579850
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

V. F. 3.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter Joseph and Florence Kate Matthews, of Fishponds, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription OVER HERE HE LIES IN SLEEP HIS MEMORY AT HOME WE SHALL ALWAYS KEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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