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Trooper EDWARD BALFE

Service Number: 40357
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

Date of Death

Died 08 April 1945

Age 47 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOSTON (ST. JOSEPH'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

SS. John and Thomas Sec. Grave 2084.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Owen and Mary Kathleen Balfe; husband of Elizabeth Balfe, of Miles Platting, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription I LOST MY SOLE COMPANION, NOW I WALK THROUGH LIFE ALONE. LOVING WIFE AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

MOSTON (ST. JOSEPH'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 373
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