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13092606 Private Italo Grumoli

Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of operation ‘Market’
Photograph of Hero Killed In Action


Born on: 01 Jan 1920
Died on: 29 Sep 1944
Died at: Battle of Arnhem
Aged: 24
Buried at: Originally buried in the General Cemetery at Lopik-Dorp, Netherlands, now in Bergen-op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery 6.F.11.

Rest in Peace Private Grumoli:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.
Son of Leo and Maria Grumoli, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire. His body was recovered from the River Lek on 18 November 1944.


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