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Guardsman

Ashton Archer

Service number 2756249
Military unit 1st Bn Coldstream Guards
Address Unknown
Date of birth 18 Apr 1915
Date of death 23 Sep 1944 (29 years old)
Place of birth Forest Town, Mansfield.
Employment, education or hobbies

In 1939 Ashton was living at Ellesmere Road, Forest Town and was working as butcher shop manager for Mansfield, Sutton & Distict Co-Op.

Family history

The younger son of Ashton and Elizabeth Tracey Archer. Ashton snr died in 1932 and Elizabeth married George Schofield in 1934. In 1939 Ashton was living with his mother and his step father at "Lyncroft" Ellesmere Rd, Forest Town along with his older brother Arthur Edgar (1909)

Military history

Served with the 1st Bn of the Coldstream Guards

Extra information

Buried at Uden War Cemetery Netherlands plot 3. G. 10.

Photographs

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