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Musician RALPH HERBERT SHORTEN

Service Number: 3649008
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

Date of Death

Died 18 June 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

33A. B. 9.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Alice Louise Shorten; husband of Eleanore Shorten, of Battersea, London.
  • Personal Inscription A LIGHT IS GONE A VOICE I LOVED IS STILLED A PLACE IS VACANT WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED
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Buried or commemorated at

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Surrey United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 7052
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