2720441 Reginald VARE, 1 Irish Guards

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    1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS - North Africa, Missing Personnel file

    Believed dead

    STATEMENT BY No. 2717213 Lance-Sergeant McCLOSKEY, 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS on the death of No. 2720441 Guardman VARE, R., 1bn IRISH GUARDS


    On 29 April 1943 I found the body of Guardsman VARE on HILL 212. I recognised this Guardsman as he was in my Company. The body was still on the Hill when the Company was relieved. This Guardsman was definitely dead, as I turned his body over.

    Signed
    Lance-Sergeant G. McCLOSKEY, H.Q. Company, 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS

    Field, 7 May 1943
     
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    Casualty

    Guardsman VARE, REGINALD
    Service Number 2720441
    Died 30/04/1943
    Aged 23
    1st Bn. Irish Guards
    Son of James and Bertha Vare, of Bollington, Cheshire.
    INSCRIPTION: IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING HIS SOUL SHALL KNOW NO FEAR
    Buried at MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Tunisia
    Cemetery/memorial reference: III. E. 17.
    See cemetery plan
     
    Last edited: Sep 3, 2019

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