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Second Lieutenant DAVID WILLIAM BERRE SEWELL

Service Number: 95994
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot A Grave 3.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Brigadier-General Horace Somerville Sewell, C.M.G, D.S.O and Bar, and Emma Sewell of Tysoe, Warwickshire.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED AT LESSIGNES IN GALLANT REARGUARD ACTION. HE KNEW NO FEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 8
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