Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Jack Wakefield

British Army 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment

from:Nottingham

(d.22nd May 1940)

Jack Wakefield was the husband of my aunt Lily (nee Hitchcock), and the son of John and Florence Wakefield, all from Nottingham. Jack was killed in the retreat to Dunkirk and was buried in the churchyard of the village of Wormhoudt northern France, he was 19 years old when he died. Jack and Lily had a daughter, Marlene, but very sadly Marlene died of diphtheria later during the war.



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