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Corporal DOUGLAS ARTHUR DESBOROUGH

Service Number: 5933216
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cambridgeshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 February 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

33. B. 20.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Vera May Desborough, of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE. HIS WIFE AND RELATIVES. "REST IN THE LORD"
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Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY
Singapore
Number of casualties: 4574
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