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Lance Serjeant ALFRED WAKEFIELD

Service Number: 2001461
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 24 January 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY

IV. E. 5.

Netherlands

14th August 2025. Site Visit.

Photographer: Adam Kelsall

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and No. 6 Commando
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Alfred and Elizabeth Annie Whinham Wakefield, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 363
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