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In 1940 Harry served in the British Expeditionary Army in France, was saved at Dunkirk, and returned with the British forces to the North African Theatre of the War. He is the fourth son of Carl Waldemar (Papa) Sponneck and Astrid Vogelius Stephensen-Sponneck. Interestingly, he would have both times stood against the forces of his German cousin, LtGeneral Theo Graf Sponeck who commanded a Tank Corps at Dunkirk and commanded the 90th Light Division of the Afrika Korps in the Desert.
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