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Lieutenant HARRY JOHN DRAKE

Service Number: 269431
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1944

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

IV. C. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilfred Harry and Dorothy Alice Drake, of Harleston, Norfolk.
  • Personal Inscription CHOSEN ... TO BE A SOLDIER. "THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY"
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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