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Fusilier HENRY WILLIAM GAVIN

Service Number: 7041660
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1940

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POLLINKHOVE CHURCHYARD

Grave 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Frances Gavin; husband of Violet Gavin, of Elvington, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HAD HE ASKED US WITH TEARFUL EYES WE'D PRAY, "LORD, WE LOVE HIM, LET HIM STAY"
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Buried or commemorated at

POLLINKHOVE CHURCHYARD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 8
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