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Signalman DEREK LANE MARTIN

Service Number: 2580555
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

1st Airborne Div. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 17 March 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY

3. C. 20.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold and Ethel Martin, of Roath, Cardiff.
  • Personal Inscription "AND HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER THAN FACING FEARFUL ODDS?"
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Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 500
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