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Lance Serjeant CECIL ALFRED TAYLOR

Service Number: 5616822
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

12th (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. K. 16.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Matilda Taylor; husband of Jean Florence Taylor, of Crook, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. GOOD-NIGHT, DARLING. JEAN, CECIL AND HAZEL
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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