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Lance Corporal DOUGLAS CHARLES HEDGES

Service Number: 5572790
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 January 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

VI, B, 13.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stanley John and Florence Jane Hedges, of Gravesend, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription GOD SAW THE HILL WAS STEEP SO CALLED OUR BELOVED ONE HOME TO SLEEP R.I.P. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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