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Private SYDNEY JOHN CLEAVE STANESBY

Service Number: 19559
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

Date of Death

Died 14 May 1942

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

1. A. 73.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sydney Ernest and Gertrude Marie Wylde Stanesby; husband of Constance Mary Stanesby, of Avalon Beach, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE. EVER REMEMBERED.
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Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
China, (including Hong Kong)
Number of casualties: 695
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