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Brave army engineers who lost lives on Norfolk beaches remembered

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11.05.2025

A new plaque has been revealed to commemorate eight Royal Engineers who died during mine operations near Holkham Gap and Wells-next-the-Sea in the Second World War.

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The eight men were pivotal in anti-invasion defences and mine clearance operations.

Their names which appear on the plaque on Wells' War Memorial Institute Club are Lance Corporal MP Christie, Sapper J McAtear, Sapper R Hilton, Sapper........

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