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Captain RICHARD WHITAKER PORRITT

Service Number: 52841
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1940

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SECLIN (DE BERGAULT) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 1.

France

general view

Photographer: Johan Pauwels

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Austin Townsend Porritt, T.D., D.L., J.P., and of Annie Louise Porritt (nee Law-Schofield), of Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Honours Graduate, Cambridge University. Member of Parliament for the Heywood and Radcliffe Division of Lancaster, 1935-1940.
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