28 October 2009

6402919 L/Cpl Stanley Britt, 4th Bn, Royal Sussex Regt

25 year old 6402919 Lance-Corporal Stanley Britt of the 4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment died on the 28th October 1942 in North Africa. He was the son of Eli and Annie Britt of Cross-in-Hand in Sussex and he died inthe fighting around El Alamein in Egypt. He is buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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