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Lance Corporal GERALD STRETTON

Service Number: 2002742
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

19 Bomb Disposal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMBURG CEMETERY

4A. N. 10.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William James Stretton and Lillian Rose Stretton, of Brough, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription FOR ONE AND ALL HE DID HIS BEST. GOD GRANT HIM NOW ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

HAMBURG CEMETERY
Hamburg Germany
Number of casualties: 2566
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