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Lieutenant Colonel HUBERT GERALD ORR

Service Number: 50070
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 14.

Netherlands

Headstone

Photographer: Chris Leach

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 3rd Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Gerald M. Orr and of Evelyn Orr (nee Leir); husband of Helen Mary Orr, of Camberley, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription "SHATTERED MY GLASS ERE HALF THE SANDS WERE RUN... I HOLD THE HEIGHTS I WON"
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