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Sergeant DOUGLAS CROSLAND

Service Number: 1305841
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BATTYEFORD (CHRIST CHURCH) BURIAL GROUND

Grave 9.

United Kingdom

Headstone for Douglas Crosland, born 1920 Stocks Bank Road Battyeford, son of Richard & Clara Crosland, (death registered at Brackley)

Photographer: John Ellam

Headstone

Photographer: Robert Frost

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Clara Crosland, of Mirfield.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BATTYEFORD (CHRIST CHURCH) BURIAL GROUND
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 6
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