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Corporal ERNEST JOHN KIRBY

Service Number: 5780896
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

V. G. 6.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred George and Ellen Kirby, of Harlow, Essex; husband of Dora Kirby, of Harlow.
  • Personal Inscription DAYS AND YEARS ARE MOMENTS FLEET IN A GARDEN WHERE DEAR ONES MEET LATER ON
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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