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Lieutenant ROY JAMES FITZGERALD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

35th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

II. E. 2.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of the late William Crowthers Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, of Wellington, New Zealand; husband of Jean Fitzgerald, of 152, Beecham Rd., Reading. An escaped Prisoner of War.
  • Personal Inscription KNOWLEDGE BY SUFFERING ENTERETH AND LIFE IS PERFECTED BY DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 586
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