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Driver HAROLD HUGHES CRESSWELL

Service Number: T/7047257
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

7. G. 11.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Florence Cresswell; husband of Hilda Lilian Cresswell, of St. Peter's, Broadstairs, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription IN MIND A SILENT THOUGHT IN HEART A CONSTANT GRIEF. WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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