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Third Engineer RAYMOND ERNEST GIRDLER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

S.S. Avila Star (London).

Date of Death

Died 28 July 1942

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LISBON (ST. GEORGE) BRITISH CHURCHYARD

Plot J1. Front Row. Grave 27.

Portugal

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Ernest and Kate Lilian Girdler, of Battersea, London.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HIS DEATH A SILENT GRIEF
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Buried or commemorated at

LISBON (ST. GEORGE) BRITISH CHURCHYARD
Portugal
Number of casualties: 39
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