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Harry Lesley Oldfield
British Army 5th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sheffield
(d.6th June 1944)
My Great Uncle Harry Oldfield was in the first wave of soldiers that landed on Gold Beach at Ver sur Mer at 7.30am on the 6th June 1944, his name is on a plaque there, on a memorial on the beach with 28 others. He was the son of William Henry & Mary Elizabeth Oldfield from Sheffield & the husband of Ethel Oldfield (known as Freda). He is buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery.