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|Surname and forenames=Dukes Bertram John
|Army number=14378379
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=36 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined the General Staff Corps - probably conscripted.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Killed in Action 18/6/1944.
|Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=No details yet.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 18/6/1944.  Interred initially at Le Parc du Boislande, map reference 873684, then re-buried on 29/5/1945 in Grave IV. E. 10. Hottot les Bagues War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription - "A LAST SOLACE IS DENIED AN EXILE STILL, HE LIES UNDERNEATH STARS OF UNFAMILIAR SKIES".
|Home address=Son of Bertram John and Louise Dukes; husband of Constance Dora Dukes, of Totton, Hampshire.
|Image Name=Bertram_John_Dukes_55th_Anti-Tank_Regiment.jpg
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone Gunner Bertram John Dukes 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.
}}


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