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Lance Corporal GEORGE MOUNTFORD

Service Number: 5045304
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY

IV. CC. 4.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac and Sarah Mountford, of Rugeley, Staffordshire; husband of Rosemary Mountford.
  • Personal Inscription WINDS OF HEAVEN, BLOW SOFTLY O'ER THIS HALLOWED SPOT WHERE ONE WE LOVE SLEEPS
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1238
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