Private Lawrence Copley Hart, 4868438
- Batt - 1
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth -
- Died - 10/05/1945
- Age - 24
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ContributeSource: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Lawrence was the son of Tom Kemp Hart and Alice Hart of Melton Mowbray.
He was killed after the surrender of Germany (May 7, 1945). On the 10th of May 1945, the Leicestershire Regiment was in Hilversum, the Netherlands and they were involved in disarmament of SS-troops of the German Hermann Göring Division. Just south of Hilversum in Lage Vuursche. A German threw a mine (or something else) on a pile of land mines. The explosion killed him and some other Germans and 13 men of the Leicestershire Regiment. www.zzairwar.nl
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Submitted by J. Parrott, 2018
The photograph of Private Hart was submitted by M E Tepper in 2021
- Conflict - World War II
- Cause of death - Munitions Explosion
- Place of death - Nr Hilversum
- Burial Place - Plot 1e, Row 6, Grave 7, Hilversum Northern Cemetery
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