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2720935 Cyril VAUSE, 1 Irish Guards

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

    Believed dead

    STATEMENT RE DEATH OF No. 2720935 Guardsman VAUSE, C.

    On 30 April 1943 I was lying on top of the ridge on HILL 212 near Guardsman VAUSE. A mortar shell landed right by him, and a piece of shrapnel entered his head, and he was also hit in the knee. His body was in a sitting position.


    Signed Guardsman W.E. GIBSON, No. 1 Company, 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS

    In the Field, 7 May 1943.
     
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    Casualty

    Guardsman VAUSE, CYRIL
    Service Number 2720935
    Died 30/04/1943
    Aged 28
    1st Bn. Irish Guards
    Son of Jesse and Florrie Vause, of Brotherton, Yorkshire.
    INSCRIPTION: RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL IN PERFECT PEACE HE AWAITS US ALL
    Buried at MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Tunisia
    Cemetery/memorial reference: V. G. 17.
    See cemetery plan
     
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