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Lance Corporal BASIL GEOFFREY DENNIS BALL

Service Number: 420320
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st East Riding Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY

XI. B. 8.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George William and Olivia Ball, of Gipsyville, Hull.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
Luxembourg Belgium
Number of casualties: 668
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