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Leading Aircraftman LAURENCE WILLIAM ROPER

Service Number: 1438259
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY

War Graves Plot B. Grave 9226.

United Kingdom

Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire, UK (CEM 8082): photos of individual Commission headstones in B Ground (courtesy of Mr John Williams, taken between Sept 2017 & Feb 2018)

Photographer: Mr John Williams

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Percy Charles and Lilian Alice Roper husband of Edith Annie Roper, of Erith, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 273
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