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Second Lieutenant HERBERT EVELYN OSWALD

Service Number: 79561
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northamptonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 17.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of The Revd. Herbert Evelyn Dalrymple Oswald, M.A., and Constance Evelyn Oswald, of Moyliscar Rectory, Co. Westmeath, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 37
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