Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Ronald Arthur Askew

British Army 8th Btn. Sherwood Foresters  

from:Worksop, Notts

(d.April 1940)

Ronald Askew is buried at a war grave at Lillehammer Northern Civil Cemetery in Norway. In April 1940 he was part of the 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters that had landed in Norway as part of a disastrous attempt to assist the Norwegian Army against the Germans. The ship carrying the Battalion's vehicles and heavy equipment was sunk and those not killed were forced to flee through mountains in deep snow.



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