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Serjeant Harry Ollerenshaw
Serjeant Harry Ollerenshaw
Service Number: 4609203 - 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regt
Born July 1908
Died 29 October 1944, age 36
Husband of Hilda Ollerenshaw, of Mossley, Lancashire
Personal Inscription: THE LOVE, IN LIFE, I HAD FOR YOU IN DEATH GROWS STRONGER STILL
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY 9. A. 21
Eight soldiers from ‘A’ company of 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s, West Riding Regiment, were killed on October 29, 1944. These soldiers were buried on October 30, 1944 on land near the farm owned by the Kerstens family. The above Photograph shows the temporary graves.
Source: BBC - WW2 People's War
Near the railway crossing on Heerma van Vosstraat, eight soldiers, from the 'A' company of 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, were killed on the 29th of October 1944. These soldiers were buried on the 30th of October, 1944 on land near the farm owned by the Kerstens family.
After the war their bodies were exhumed and reburied at the Bergen-op-Zoom English War Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
The list of soldiers killed during this action:
Cyril Henry Taylor
Harry Ollerenshaw
David Brindley
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