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Gunner A ROPER

Service Number: 90571
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

170th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 30 March 1919

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

III. E. 6.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Louis and Caroline Roper; husband of Elizabeth Roper, of 14, Grover St., Southend-on-Sea. Born at Colchester.
  • Personal Inscription A BITTER GRIEF A SHOCK SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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