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Serjeant GEORGE ROBERT APPLETON

Service Number: 552997
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

4th Queen's Own Hussars

Date of Death

Died 13 April 1941

Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY

9. D. 16.

Greece

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Sidney and Margaret Appleton; husband of Ada Appleton, of Bolton-on-Dearne, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription RISEN TO THE HIGHEST PINNACLE OF SELF SACRIFICE AND ENSHRINED IN OUR HEARTS. WIFE AND DAUGHTER PAT.
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Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 2056
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