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Lieutenant HEW DURYEA LAPTHORNE

Service Number: SX1450
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Cavalry Regiment

6 Australian Division

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1941

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DAMASCUS COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY

L. 42.

Syria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of William Percival Allen Lapthorne and Jeanne Elvira Lapthorne, of Toorak Gardens, South Australia.
  • Personal Inscription "THEY RISE TO THEIR FEET WHEN HE PASSES BY, GENTLEMEN UNAFRAID"
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