Lieutenant Colonel DOUGLAS OSWALD THOMAS DYKES
Service Number: AI/405
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Sikh Regiment
Date of Death
Died 27 October 1947
Age 33 years old
Photographer: Richard Kellaway
- Country of Service Indian
- Additional Info Son of Douglas Pallew Dykes and Edith Mary Dykes, of Edinburgh; husband of Biddy Dykes who is buried with him.
- Personal Inscription ALSO HIS WIFE BIDDY. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
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