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Captain ROBERT EUSTACE ABEL-SMITH

Service Number: 42107
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY

IV. A. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Eustace and Ailleen Abel-Smith; husband of Mary Sidney Clive Abel-Smith, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
  • Personal Inscription "BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
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Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 233
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