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Corporal HENRY JOSEPH ORPIN

Service Number: 6339900
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1940

Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

Plot 7. Row A. Grave 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Joseph and Jane Harriet Orpin; husband of Freda Elizabeth Mildred Orpin, of Maidstone, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription SWEET MEMORIES. WE WHO LOVED HIM NEVER FORGET HIM. WIFE, SON, MUM, DAD AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1392
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