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Leading Seaman ERNEST OLIVE

Service Number: R/JX 216935
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Wildfire

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LITTLE LEVER (ST. MATTHEW) CHURCHYARD

Grave D. 134.

United Kingdom

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Photographer: Gill Palmieri

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Esther Olive, of Little Lever.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

LITTLE LEVER (ST. MATTHEW) CHURCHYARD
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 9
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