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Private HAROLD HIRST

Service Number: 1472117
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 November 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY

I, A, 15.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Edward and Mary Hirst; husband of Dorothy Hirst, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 145
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