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Lieutenant BENJAMIN WROE

Service Number: 271922
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY

IV.C.4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ethel Grace Wroe; nephew of Mr. G. Wroe, of Wrenthorpe, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEAREST MEMORIES ALWAYS OF OUR BELOVED ONLY BOY. MELBOURNE HOUSE, WRENTHORPE, WAKEFIELD, YORKSHIRE
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Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 400
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