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Trooper GEORGE ALEXANDER RAFFERTY

Service Number: 330161
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

1st

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

3. A. 17.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Isabella Alexander Rafferty; husband of Maggie Jane Rafferty, of Kirkton, Dumfriesshire.
  • Personal Inscription ALTHOUGH THE WAVES OF THE OCEAN DIVIDE US, STILL IN OUR HEARTS YOU REIGN
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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