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Lance Corporal DEREK SUMNER

Service Number: 6153658
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

2nd Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders

Date of Death

Died 08 February 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

17. D. 5.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter B. and Blanche G. Sumner, of Surbiton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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