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<div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Can someone give me a hand please.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am on second time round looking at on line newspapers to find ringers who fell during the wars. I would like to read the article that is suggested by FindMyPast but just cannot find it ..</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Local & District News</div><div>Local & District News</div><div> the fighting forces. Pte. Leonard Percy Roper, has been reported missing at Singapore, but it is hoped that may be a prisoner of war. Pte. Roper 30 years of age. and is married. His father was killed in the last war.</div><div>24 April 1942 - Western Gazette - Yeovil, Somerset, England</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I know that this man died ..</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt Of Honour</div><div>First name(s)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Leonard Percy</div><div>Last name<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Roper</div><div>Birth year<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>1912</div><div>Age<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>30</div><div>Death year<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>1942</div><div>Death date<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>14 Feb 1942</div><div>Number<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>6029000</div><div>Rank<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Private</div><div>Unit<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>4th Bn.</div><div>Regiment<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Suffolk Regiment</div><div>Grave reference<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>11. D. 8.</div><div>Cemetery or Memorial<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Kranji War Cemetery</div><div>Burial country<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Singapore</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The article may tell me if he was a ringer.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">David</div><div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>
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