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Trooper CHARLES EDWARD WATERSTONE HARKNESS

Service Number: 4271987
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 19 April 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY

8. G. 6.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Archibald Bower Harkness and Mary Harkness; husband of Myrtle Cissie Harkness, of Handsworth, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription HE LEFT US SUDDENLY, THOUGHTS UNKNOWN, HE LEFT US A MEMORY WE ARE PROUD TO OWN
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Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 2404
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