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Warrant Officer DESMOND ROBERT BIRT

Service Number: 1380798
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

7. B. 19.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Gladys Kate Birt, of Cashes Green, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN DAY BREAKS AND SHADOWS FALL, GOD IN HIS MERCY UNITES ALL. MUM, DAD AND JOY
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Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1393
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