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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Salmon Albert George
|Army number=1444999
|Rank=Sergeant.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained, but presumably 1916.
|Age=28 at the time of his death. 
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Served Normandy. Died of wounds 30/6/1944.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known beyond Sergeant.
|Wounded=Yes - Normandy - exact date not yet known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of WOUNDS 30/6/1944.  Initially interred at Ryes, Map 1/50,000, MR 7E/5 Reference 864.823.  Re-buried 8/11/1944 in Plot III, Row G, Grave 5 Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville.  Headstone inscription reads LOVED IN LIFE, TREASURED IN DEATH, BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES, ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT.
|Home address=Son of Wilfred John and Ella Phoebe Salmon.  Husband of Ivy Ella Salmon of Bardwell, Suffolk. 
|Image Name=Sgt_Salmon_CWGC_Headstone.jpg
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone.
}}

Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk  supported by details from the CWGC Website, and a photograph supplied by Adeline Dutertre.