Raffaele Maietta

Sapper Raffaele Maietta was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1917, in Wandsworth, the son of Italian ice cream vendor Raffaele and Gertrude Maietta (née Walker), of London. Maietta's father died shortly before his birth and his mother remairred in 1920, to Thomas Murray.
Maietta died on 17 November 1944, in a Naples hospital during the Italian Campaign, while serving with 7 Field Company, Royal Engineers. He had married Doris Franks in 1940.
He is buried in Naples War Cemetery.
==References==
*Maietta, Raffaele, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
Category:1917 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Italian descent
Category:Buried in Italy
Category:Sappers