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Captain ALEXANDER TWEEDIE SEMPLE

Service Number: 237732
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

8. C. 13.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac and Elizabeth Semple; husband of Rita Jeanette Semple, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD , AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD: AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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