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Major DEREK ANTHONY MELVILLE HARE

Service Number: 112984
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

20. F. 16.

Myanmar

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Charles Tristram Melville Hare, C.B.E., and Marie Geertruida Hare, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "FOR DEATH TAKES TOLL OF BEAUTY, COURAGE, YOUTH, OF ALL BU TRUTH"
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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