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Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES THOMAS MILNES GASKELL

Service Number: 41120
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

Date of Death

Died 05 November 1943

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 5. A. 1-8.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Evelyn and Constance Milnes Gaskell; husband of Patricia Milnes Gaskell (nee Hare), of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED ON HIS BIRTHDAY IN AIR ACCIDENT COMING HOME FROM MOSCOW
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Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2061
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