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Serjeant RICHARD EASTON NELSON

Service Number: 3602453
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

III. C. 4.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Janet Nelson; husband of Annie Gray Nelson, of Dudley, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription LOVING MEMORIES OF RICHARD. TO THE WORLD BUT ONE, TO US HE WAS ALL THE WORLD. SADLY MISSED BY ALL
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Buried or commemorated at

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