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Able Seaman HENRY GILPIN

Service Number: R/JX 213358
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Minster

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORTLAND ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY

C. of E. Portion. Grave 739.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Ellen Gilpin; husband of Lilian Gilpin, of Bow, London.
  • Personal Inscription THE CUP WAS BITTER THE STING SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR
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