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Captain JOSEPH GURNEY FOWELL BUXTON

Service Number: 68895
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 April 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY

9. C. 1.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Fowell Buxton and Katherine Buxton; husband of Elizabeth Langley Buxton, of Tring, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HEAVEN'S MORNING BREAKS AND EARTH'S VAIN SHADOWS FLEE
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Buried or commemorated at

MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 2910
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