Commonwealth War Graves Ringstead Cemetery

On Ringstead Cemetery is one Commonwealth war grave from World War I and one from World War II.

There is a third CWGC grave located in this cemetery of:

Pte Brian Peter Quinn (23821342)
1st Bn. The Parachute Regt.
17.3.42 - 30.5.67

Quinn, age 25, died of wounds received when a grenade was thrown in the al-Mansurah township of Aden on 30th May 1967, during the Aden Emergency (1963-1967). The cause of death was perforation of the heart and other organs due to a grenade fragment.
He was originally buried in Silent Valley Military Cemetery, Aden, but was later repatriated and re-interned at Ringstead Cemetery, Northamptonshire on 10th June 1967.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Karen May
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission