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Lance Corporal ERNEST JOHN HOOKWAY

Service Number: 5620384
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

1 (Airborne) Divisional Provost Coy.

Date of Death

Died 18 September 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

1. B. 5.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Thomas Hookway and Helena Maria Hookway, of Barnstaple, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription FROM SKY TO EARTH, FOR LIBERTY HE FELL, HE WON HIS "ANGEL" WINGS. FAREWELL
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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