Colour Sergeant Samuel Harold Charles Lake served with 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion. He took part in the Rhine Crossing, during Op Varsity.
Colour Sergeant Lake died on 24 March 1945, aged 25 years old. He is now buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany.
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by Airborne Forces administratorArmy Roll of Honour: World War II supplied by Naval and Military Press Ltd
- Name
- Samuel H C Lake
- Rank
- Colour Serjeant
- Service Number
- 5383871
- Regiment
- Parachute Regt (not otherwise specified)
- Date of Death
- 24/3/45
- Theatre of War
- Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
