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Lieutenant RICHARD JUXON PEARCE

Service Number: 284449
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars

Date of Death

Died 28 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

IV. D. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. William Juxon Pearce and Cynthia Effie Mary Pearce, of East Woodhay, Hampshire. Awarded the Belt of Honour, Royal Military College, June, 1942.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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