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Serjeant LAWRENCE ARTHUR ORCHARD

Service Number: 7909675
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

11th Hussars

Date of Death

Died 06 September 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OLSENE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 1.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur William and Violet May Orchard.
  • Personal Inscription "SLEEP LIGHTLY, LAD, THOU ART FOR THE KING'S GUARD AT DAYBREAK . . "
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Buried or commemorated at

OLSENE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1
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