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Gunner HARRY ASTEN

Service Number: 873986
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

185 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XVIII. D. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Ethel Asten, of Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Elizabeth Asten, of Bolton.
  • Personal Inscription A STAR SHINES BRIGHT ON THIS GRAVE OF THE DEAREST HUSBAND GOD EVER GAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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