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Wars Last Goodbyes
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Also Gerald his son
North Africa 1942
Aged 29
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St Peter Powick
Worcestershire
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Walter Gerald
Moran
21st November 1913
Powick, Worcestershire
4th December 1942
As part of Operation Torch when the joint French/American/British forces landed in North Africa in November 1942 - Gerald died in this initial phase near Bone in Algeria when Torch wasn't progressing as well as they would have liked - the Germans had arrived to counter their arrival quicker than expected
29
Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria
Second World War
Sapper
702 Artisan Works Company Royal Engineers
He worked as a Carpenter and as a Sapper in an Artisanal Company in the Royal Engineers he would have been working with his skills. Known as Gerald.
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