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Private ERNEST JOHN ROPER

Service Number: 231572
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 25 January 1919

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

C. 162.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Sarah Ann Roper, of Frogmore Farm, West Morden, Wareham, Dorset.
  • Personal Inscription NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO A FATHER'S HOME ABOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

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