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Private EDWARD ALLAN BRIGHTWELL

Service Number: 7885
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

27th

Date of Death

Died 13 April 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

VIII. G. 3.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Penrose Brightwell and Ivy May Brightwell, of Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia.
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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