• Operation Market Garden

Date of death:

September 25th, 1944 (Unknown)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Uden
Plot: 4. Row: D. Grave: 1.

Service number:

4546462

Nationality:

British

Trooper William Lake
52nd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps, RAC
During the night of Sunday 24 to Monday 25 September 1944, many British tanks and armoured vehicles were stationed in the fields to the left of the Veghel/Sint-Oedenrode road, including those of the 52nd Regiment, Recce RAC. Foxholes had been dug in several places.
That night, Trooper Lake was keeping watch in one of these foxholes. He must have been approached/sneaked up on silently by one or more infiltrating Germans and attacked. Such infiltrations took place virtually every night - there was, on both sides, a high level of patrol activity in the Sint-Oedenrode - Eerde - Wijbosch - Schijndel area.
Standing in his foxhole, partially above ground level, he was shot. At the last moment, he must have sensed danger. He was hit in the forehead, with the bullet exiting the back of his head through his helmet. Lake must have been killed instantly.
He was buried in a field grave near the home of Mr Th. de Bie in Sint-Oedenrode
(from 1964: Eversestraat 18) and was reburied on 11 July 1946 at the British War Cemetery in Uden.

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• - Trooper William Lake | War Casualty Details 2765847 | CWGC
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  - Archive A. Verbakel / Heemkundekring Uden

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