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Robert Edward Drake

Captain

Service No. Unknown

Age 36

Died on 8 September 1914

Lincolnshire Regiment

BEZU-LE-GUERY COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Aisne, France

Son of John and Ellen Louisa Drake, of The Chestnuts, Long Melford, Suffolk. Native of Great Wratting, Suffolk.

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Henry Harrison

Robert, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Robert, as a former Lincolns soldier myself, doing my National Service in 1950 with the 1st Battalion in the Suez Canal Zone, I feel honour...

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