17 October 2009

14610297 Fusilier Ernest Edwin Merrifield, 11th Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

14610297 Fusilier Ernest Edwin Merrifield of the 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers died on the 17th October 1944 in Italy. He was the 19 year old son of Leonard Edwin and Lilian Elizabeth Merrifield of Newton Abbot, Devon.

Ernest Merrifield is one of 1139 Commonwealth burials in Faenza War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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