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Corporal JOSEPH OAKES

Service Number: 3651275
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

III. D. 9.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Janet Oakes; husband of Irene Oakes, of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription LOVING THOUGHTS OF JOE. IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER. LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. RENE
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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