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Corporal SYDNEY GREAVES

Service Number: 1882893
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 09 October 1943

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHODES WAR CEMETERY

3. A. 3.

Greece

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and 'X' Det. Special Boat Service, S.A.S. Regiment, A.A.C.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Joshua and Dora Greaves; husband of Ethel Greaves, of Burley-in-Wharfdale, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY A DEAR WIFE AND DAUGHTER
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Buried or commemorated at

RHODES WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 142
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