STERRY, Geoffrey Albert Robert


No.5826156, Gunner, Geoffrey Albert Robert STERRY
Aged 28


6 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
formerly Suffolk Regiment
Died of Illness on 6th July 1942


Geoffrey Albert Robert Sterry was born in 1914 in Stanningfield (1st qtr 1914 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:1752) son of Ernest Edward and Kate Mary STERRY (née ATKINSON )

In the 1939 register his parents (father a market agent) were at "Greenview", Bradfield Combust but by the time of his death they were in Stanningfield

His uncle David Atkinson was killed in Belgium in 1917 see here




Apparently dying from disease, he was initially buried in a small civil cemetery in Ranchi and moved to the war cemetery in 1947. Efforts to find the exact cause of death has so far been unsuccessful



Photo CWGC

Geoffrey Sterry is buried in Ranchi War Cemetery, India 5:D:2

click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details


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