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Gunner NELSON WOODWARD

Service Number: 1092980
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

51 (The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 14 January 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY

9. F. 4.

Libya

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Nelson and Mary Woodward, of Rowley Regis, Blackheath, Staffordshire.
  • 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

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 2480
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