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Company Quartermaster Serjeant HARRY GORDON PAYNE

Service Number: 5718142
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 02 July 1940

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAGHERAGALLON CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Uncons. 1. 8.

Ireland, Republic of

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hubert Charles and Alice Payne; husband of Mary Martha Maud Payne, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS STRANGE BUT TRUE, I WONDER WHY THE BEST ARE ALWAYS FIRST TO DIE
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