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Captain DENNIS WILLIAM SPARROW

Service Number: 134339
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XVIII. E. 7.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Royal Sussex Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Stanley Sparrow and Lilian Gertrude Sparrow, of New Barnet, Hertfordshire; husband of Mary Sparrow.
  • Personal Inscription SO GALLANT SO GAY
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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