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Driver BASIL JOHN CHANDLER

Service Number: 2381581
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

8 Air Formation Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 16 July 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

III, G, 10.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Belcher and Edith Chandler, of Addlestone, Surrey. His brother Reginald Chandler also fell.
  • Personal Inscription "THAT THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 949
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