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Trooper EDWARD MATES

Service Number: 3454734
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

49th (West Riding) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 03 March 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

19. C. 3.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Edward and Margaret Ann Mates, of Hapton, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription TO HAVE, TO LOVE, AND THEN TO PART, IS THE GREATEST SORROW OF OUR HEARTS

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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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