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Corporal WILFRED HAWKES

Service Number: 4446370
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

1. E. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jack and Mary Hawkes; husband of Doris Hawkes, of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS YOU LINGER YET WE LOVED YOU TOO DEARLY TO EVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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