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Gunner RICHARD HENRY DRAKE

Service Number: 357
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Heavy Artillery

36th Group.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

I. F. 75.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Eveline Drake, of Riverton, Derwent Valley, Tasmania, and the late Charles Arthur Drake.
  • Personal Inscription MY ADORED SON DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2614
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