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Lieutenant BASIL ERNEST PLACE

Service Number: 277051
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

24 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY

IV. A. 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Arthur and Minnie Place, of Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "IN THE SIGHT OF THE UNWISE THEY SEEM TO DIE... BUT THEY ARE IN PEACE"
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Buried or commemorated at

MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 582
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