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Trooper HEDLEY RAYMOND SPARKS

Service Number: 7961342
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

7th

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL

III. A. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sydney and Lottie Sparks, of Pengegon, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription FOR HONOUR, LIBERTY AND TRUTH HE SACRIFICED HIS GLORIOUS YOUTH
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 521
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