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Lance Corporal HERBERT ERNEST FORD

Service Number: 2002890
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

621 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 08 November 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TILBURG (GILZERBAAN) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot B. Row 1. Grave 2.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac Arthur and Sarah Emily Ford, of Bawdsey, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE, A PRECIOUS MEMORY, HIS ABSENCE, A SILENT GRIEF
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Buried or commemorated at

TILBURG (GILZERBAAN) GENERAL CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 76
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