Lieutenant John Lucas Stride (105330)

 

Lieutenant John Lucas Stride (105330) - King's Shropshire Light Infantry, attached to the 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Killed in action 4th March 1945 (age 32)
On the night of the 4th March 1945 he led a fighting patrol which went forward into the village of Wardt. He was killed by machine gun fire on the western edge of the village. His body was found by 'C' Company men the following morning on the edge of an enemy slit trench.

Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Stride, of Haywards Heath and husband of Penelope (Nancy), of York Mills, Toronto, Canada.
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY, Kleve, Germany - grave 57. G. 17.


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