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Private ALEXANDER IVAN GERKEN

Service Number: 556023
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Infantry

25th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 March 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

X. G. 21.

Italy

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Victor Gerken, and of Ivy Gerken (nee Cunningham), of Gore, Southland, New Zealand; husband of May Gerken, of Gore.
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Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 4277
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