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Lance Corporal ERNEST EDWARD BLACKMAN

Service Number: 5493059
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

12. B. 4.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert and Sarah Blackman, of East Meon, Hampshire; husband of Alfreda Helena May Blackman, of East Meon. His brother Charles Victor Norman also died on service.
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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