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Lance Serjeant HERBERT DRAKE

Service Number: 4690052
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

2/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1941

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DRIGHLINGTON (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD

Sec. E. Grave 40.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Drake; husband of Dorothy Drake, of Drighlington.
  • Personal Inscription HE HAD NOT TIME TO BID FAREWELL. LOVING WIFE AND SON
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Buried or commemorated at

DRIGHLINGTON (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 14
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