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Private EGBERT ROWLAND BEDFORD

Service Number: 4041826
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

V. F. 11.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Egbert and Rose Bedford, of Wollescote, Worcestershire.
  • Personal Inscription HE BRAVELY TOOK HIS PLACE HE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR BRITAIN AND THE HONOUR OF HIS RACE
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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