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Craftsman GEOFFREY DESMOND HIPWELL

Service Number: 7610051
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 02 August 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

VIII. C. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. L.A.D., 131st Inf. Bde.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Tertius James Hipwell and Kate Langdon Hipwell, of Barton, Torquay, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription IN GRATEFUL, LOVING MEMORY "AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN"
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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