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Private DEREK GRANVILLE BROOKES

Service Number: 14719015
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 August 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

Grave 321.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Fanny Brookes, of Four Lane End, Castleford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE PLANNED, BUT GOD DECIDED
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Buried or commemorated at

MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Oise France
Number of casualties: 177
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