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Private WALTER OAKES

Service Number: 4129228
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cheshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

VII. E. 4.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Owen and Emma Oakes, of Anderton, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription FOR HONOUR, LIBERTY AND TRUTH, HE SACRIFICED HIS GLORIOUS YOUTH
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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