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Fusilier EDGAR ROBERT CORNELL

Service Number: 6459448
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NIEUWPOORT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot III, Grave 30.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert William and Julia Cornell, of East Ham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription HE IDOLISED HIS COUNTRY AND IN HEAVEN IS SATISFIED
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Buried or commemorated at

NIEUWPOORT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 101
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