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Serjeant GEORGE BACKHOUSE

Service Number: 1800352
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY

II. F. 8.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Annie Backhouse, of Earlsheaton, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS YOUNG LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. ALWAYS REMEMBERED. MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 582
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