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