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Lance Corporal ERNEST ALBERT AKERS

Service Number: 1881489
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

244 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 11 July 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

V. B. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Edwin and Elsie Akers, of Leicester; husband of Elsie Evelyn Akers, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription ON BROKEN WINGS MY HEART HAS TAKEN FLIGHT AND LEFT A DREAM. MOTHER, DAD AND ELSIE
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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