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Captain ERNEST WILLIAM HESTER

Service Number: 178592
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

13th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 December 1947

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LITTLE MARLOW CEMETERY

Grave 737.

United Kingdom

Little Marlow Cemetery - headstone of Captain E.W. Hester of the Durham Light Infantry, one of the last casualties of the 2nd world war commemorated by the Commission (died 31 December 1947).

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Helen Hester; husband of Joyce Ellen Hester, of Little Marlow. Also served with the Honourable Artillery Company in the 1914-18 War.
  • Personal Inscription SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1914 - 1918 WITH THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY
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Buried or commemorated at

LITTLE MARLOW CEMETERY
Buckinghamshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 3
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