26 December 2009

5621163 Pte Harold Ralph Rainbow, 9th Bn, Devonshire Regt

5621163 Private Harold Ralph Rainbow of the 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, died on the 26th December 1939. He was the son of Montague and Mable Rainbow of Ilfracombe, Devon; and he is buried in the town's Marlborough Road cemetery. Harold was just 19 years old when he died.

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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