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Private DESMOND JOHN HELMER

Service Number: 14406585
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 February 1945

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

56. H. 10.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Victor Morly Helmer, and Hilda Hester Linda Helmer, of Highfield, Southampton.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON "RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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