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NEW INFORMATION - Those killed in the orchard named!

 NEW INFORMATION RECEIVED SINCE BOOK PUBLISHED

 We Will Remember Them!

Book Page 60

1 York & Lancs. War Diary 

19 Jan 44 – 0615 

Move completed just as it was getting light. 4 killed, 6 wounded by mines in orchards. Captain Hewitt (Officer Commanding ‘C’ Company) and Captain Ramsay (Second in Command ‘B’ Company) wounded from shelling of road during move of Battalion.

The four men killed were:

 Pte. J.W. Barlow                                         1 York & Lancs.              Killed in Orchard minefield.

Sgt. J. Glover                                               1 York & Lancs.              Killed in Orchard minefield.

L/Cpl. C.E. Nugent                                     1 York & Lancs.              Killed in Orchard minefield.

Pte. G.W.Thompson                                    1 York & Lancs.              Killed in Orchard minefield.






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