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Captain IVAN GERALD SOPWITH

Service Number: 117084
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 17 September 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VALKENSWAARD WAR CEMETERY

II. A. 11.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment seconded to the Devonshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gerald and Stella Sopwith, of Woodcote, Oxfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription NO GRAVE CAN ROB US OF OUR MEMORIES; WE GIVE THEM BACK TO GOD AND FIND HIS PEACE AT LAST
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Buried or commemorated at

VALKENSWAARD WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 222
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