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Trooper ERNEST ALFRED JOSEPH DRAKE

Service Number: 7956896
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

157th (9th Bn. The Hampshire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 20 January 1943

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DURBAN (STELLAWOOD) CEMETERY

Block F. Grave 315.

South Africa

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Alfred and Alice Drake, of Reading, Berkshire, England; husband of Audrey Drake, of Reading.
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Buried or commemorated at

DURBAN (STELLAWOOD) CEMETERY
Kwazulu Natal South Africa
Number of casualties: 710
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