Bombardier WILLIAM DOWNEY
Service Number: 984911
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery
65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt
Date of Death
Died 24 October 1942
Age 27 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Joseph and Bridget Downey; husband of Mary Downey (nee Smith), of New Stevenston, Lanarkshire.
- Personal Inscription IN LIFE HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST. O LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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