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Gunner GEORGE JAMES RITCHIE

Service Number: 1834023
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

278 Bty., 68 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE

VIII. J. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Albert Ritchie, and of Lucy Ritchie, of Heathway, Dagenham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription NOT A DAY DO WE FORGET YOU, GEORGE DEAR IN OUR HEARTS YOU WILL ALWAYS BE NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 988
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