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Private ERIC METHLEY

Service Number: 14710999
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEESCH ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Grave 15.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Violet Methley, of Worsborough Dale, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SO YOUNG AND BRAVE, HE MET HIS FATE. O LORD, REWARD HIM AT THY HEAVENLY GATE
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Buried or commemorated at

HEESCH ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 26
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