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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.