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Private IRA DRAKE

Service Number: 64167
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

40th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 April 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LILLE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

III. B. 44.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Beatrice Illingworth (formerly Drake), of 17, East View, Clayton Heights, Queensbury, Bradford.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HIS REWARD BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE
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Buried or commemorated at

LILLE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 618
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