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Major NORMAN FRANCIS ASTELL

Service Number: 172179
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 24 December 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY

19. F. 14.

Greece

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Raiding Support Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Walter Henry and Minnie Florence Astell; husband of Mary Astell, of Ramsden Bell House, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription PROUD & EVERLOVING MEMORIES OF A DEVOTED HUSBAND. HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 2056
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