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Richard Sinclair
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Looking on behalf of Daughter to find more information on the following Army Person and how to find actual Military Record. I have photo of military grave in Greece. What does the 20. D. 8. mean regarding age details below? Richard

Carpenter, Leslie Wilfred
Cemetery: Phaleron War Cemetery
Country: Greece
Area: Athens
Rank: Fusilier
Official Number: 810270
Unit: 8th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Force: Army
Nationality: British
Details:
16/06/46 Aged 29 20. D. 8. Son of Harry and Alice Carpenter; husband of Elsie Rose Carpenter, of High Halden, Kent.

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29/01/2012 21:33:36

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Looking on behalf of Daughter to find more information on the following Army Person and how to find actual Military Record. I have photo of military grave in Greece. What does the 20. D. 8. mean regarding age details below? Richard

Carpenter, Leslie Wilfred
Cemetery: Phaleron War Cemetery
Country: Greece
Area: Athens
Rank: Fusilier
Official Number: 810270
Unit: 8th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Force: Army
Nationality: British
Details:
16/06/46 Aged 29 20. D. 8. Son of Harry and Alice Carpenter; husband of Elsie Rose Carpenter, of High Halden, Kent.

Richard.

The 20.D.8 is nothing to do with age. It is the Grave/Memorial Reference which would be read in conjunction with the plan of the cemetery or memorial.

Look at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site and you will see it is as a separate line.

www.cwgc.org

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30/01/2012 15:11:20

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Richard.

Further to my last post. WW2 Records are not in the public domain for 75 years (until 2020).

However, Records of deceased persons can be obtained by Next of Kin.

See here:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo/Personnel/ServiceRecords/MakingARequestForInformationHeldOnThePersonnelRecordsOfDeceasedServicePersonnel.htm

Just copy and paste the url.

Hope this helps you in your search.

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30/01/2012 21:24:16

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Leslie is also commemorated on the ’Find A Grave’ site.

Here you can add a photo and leave flowers and a note.

Copy and paste:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56552462

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