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Private ROBERT EDGAR FORD

Service Number: 4523
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

31st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1917

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD

XXIV. D. 3.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of William Benjamin Ford and Esther Esdaile, his wife; husband of Henrietta U. Ford, of Elphinstone, Queensland. Born at Yokohama, Japan.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE CAN NO MAN SHOW THAN THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2112
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