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Lieutenant Colonel DONALD WILLIAM GARNHAM RAY

Service Number: 27256
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

17th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 July 1944

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMBORNE MINSTER CEMETERY

Sec. 17.A.11. Grave 7377.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 7th Bn. Hampshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter John Orbell Ray and Marie Estelle Ray, of Wimborne; husband of Marcy Marcella M. W. Ray, of Wimborne. His brother, Philip Orbell Clement Ray, also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE THAN THIS NO MAN HATH, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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