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Private WILFRED DRAKETT

Service Number: 4980808
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 April 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

II. L. 6.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Fanny Drakett; husband of Eva Drakett, of Aspley, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription SUNSHINE PASSES SHADOWS FALL BUT A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY OUTLIVES THEM ALL
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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