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Private SAMUEL RIGBY

Service Number: 4616920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

II. D. 2.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Florence Ada Rigby, of Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription A SILENT TEAR, A THOUGHT SINCERE. HOW OFTEN, DEAR SONNY, WE WISH YOU WERE HERE
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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