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Private ROY GRIGGS

Service Number: 7667695
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Pay Corps

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PREFAILLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 69.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Adelaide C. Griggs, of Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription HE WANTED TO LIVE TO LOVE THE FIELDS AND DALES BUT A TYRANT ENDED HIS YOUNG LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

PREFAILLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Loire-Atlantique France
Number of casualties: 73
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