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Corporal CHARLES RICHARD JAY

Service Number: 5182178
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XIX. E. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Edward and Elizabeth Ada Jay, of Felton, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription LIFE TO US HAS NOT BEEN THE SAME SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. GOD BLESS. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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