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Lieutenant DEREK CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY GRANGE

Service Number: 277585
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IA. A. 6.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 12th (Airborne) Bn. Devonshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Henry and Betty Muriel Grange, of Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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