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Flight Lieutenant HARTLEY DEREK ROPER

Service Number: 46734
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

4. C. 3.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Medal
  • Additional Info Son of James Herbert and Evelyn Roper, of Aldershot, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED AS HE HAD LIVED, FOR OTHERS. "ONE OF THE FEW"
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Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 947
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