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Private ERNEST STRAFFORD

Service Number: 4755938
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 January 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

VI, H, 14.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Eliza Strafford, of Sheffield; husband of Edith Evelyn Strafford, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription DEAR LORD HOLD HIM HE IS THINE LOVE HIM AS WE LOVED HIM WITH THY LOVE DIVINE

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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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