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Lieutenant C F DRAKE

Service Number: 102340
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Air Force

12 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY

12. C. 7.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of John B. and Beatrice L. Drake; husband of Dorothea G. Drake, of Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa. A.R.I.B.A.
  • Personal Inscription SPLENDOR MUNDI UMBRA COELI
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Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2061
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