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Lieutenant Colonel THOMAS HENRY ELY

Service Number: 17726
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 05 May 1943

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. E. 23.

Tunisia

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 36th (London) Div.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Robert and Arabella Walpole Ely; husband of Muriel Mary Ely, of Fleet, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription PRAY THAT NATIONS MAY BE WISE, GENEROUS AND JUST, AS HE WAS
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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