SFAX WAR CEMETERY HISTORY INFORMATION
In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the Axis powers by a combined Allied force. In the south, the Axis forces defeated in Egypt at El Alamein withdrew into Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. Most of those buried in Sfax War Cemetery died in attacks on successive Axis positions at Medenine, the Marith Line and Wadi Akarit, in March and April 1943. The cemetery contains 1,253 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 52 of them unidentified. The single First World War grave in Sfax War Cemetery was brought in from Bizerta Sidi Saleru Moslem Cemetery in March 1983. There is also 1 Greek soldier of the 1939-45 war buried here.
SURNAME
Staples
FORENAME
Montague
UNIT
former 8 and ME Commandos
RANK
Corporal of Horse
NUMBER
304543
DATE OF DEATH
20th January 1943
AGE
38
GRAVESITE
Sfax War Cemetery,Tunisia VI.A.10
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Horse Guards (The Blues),Household Cavalry...
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