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   DESFORD ARCHIVES: WWII 

War Memorial

Leading Airman Lewis Henry Beall* Royal Navy
Sergeant George Alfred Coleman* Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Corporal Brian Reginald Hardy Royal Engineers
Lance Corporal Edwin Heath Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
Rifleman Herbert Arthur Hutt London Irish Rifles/Royal Ulster Rifles
Private Frank Sidney Percy Mason Lincolnshire Regiment
Sergeant John Edward Moss Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Private Edgar Oswin Poole Northamptonshire Regiment
Private Walter Prime* Hampshire Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel John Gordon Squirrell * Leicestershire Regiment

Commemorated with Commonwealth War Grave headstones in St Martin’s Churchyard

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