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Lance Corporal LESLIE FRANCIS WILLIAM RAKES

Service Number: 2622248
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OUED ZARGA WAR CEMETERY

1. E. 2.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert and Alice Rakes; husband of Constance Rakes, of Dagenham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON, MY DARLING AND TAKE THY REST THEY MISS YOU MOST WHO LOVED YOU BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

OUED ZARGA WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 247
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