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Lieutenant PETER ALBERT HANDS

Service Number: 299381
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

52. F. 16.

Germany

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 7th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Albert James Hands and Amy Rose Hands, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription SO FAR AWAY YET NEAR IN THOUGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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