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Gunner HORATIO NELSON ORMEROD

Service Number: 49590
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

30th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 28 July 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

I. D. 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Horatio and Margaret Ormerod, of Cherry Tree, Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription WHAT A NOBLE DEATH FIGHTING FOR GOD RIGHT AND LIBERTY
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 559
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