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Lance Corporal JOSEPH CANAVAN

Service Number: 2888505
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

V. E. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Personal Inscription YOU DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE US BUT YOU HAD TO GO, A BROTHER IN A MILLION, WE LOVED YOU SO
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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