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Private GEORGE WILLIAM DEVONSHIRE

Service Number: 5189212
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VA. N. 8.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 8th Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Florence Mary Devonshire, of Horfield, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription VALIANT HE FELL FOR FREEDOM'S CAUSE. HIS SPIRIT LIVES. WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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