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Private ROBERT JAMES ASHCROFT

Service Number: 14427877
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 December 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

14. B. 11.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Thomas Ashcroft and Elizebeth Ashcroft, of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription SO YOUNG, BUT DID HIS DUTY AND DIED THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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