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Private JOSEPH CHARLES RICHARDS

Service Number: 14718683
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 December 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SWARTBROEK CHURCHYARD

Row 1. Grave 0A.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Ernest and Sarah Ellen Richards.
  • Personal Inscription GRIEVE NOT, DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BE CONTENT, I WAS NOT YOURS BUT ONLY LENT
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Buried or commemorated at

SWARTBROEK CHURCHYARD
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 52
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