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Private JOSEPH HENRY BIRTLES

Service Number: 7380344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

127 Parachute Field Amb.

Date of Death

Died 15 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY, MARSEILLES

Plot 4. Row C. Grave 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Louisa Birtles, of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY, MARSEILLES
Bouches-du-Rhone France
Number of casualties: 1784
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