Private WILLIAM EDWIN DOWNES
Service Number: 4033715
Regiment & Unit/Ship
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Date of Death
Died 22 August 1944
Age 21 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 7th Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William Henry James Downes and Clara Downes, of Ditherington, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
- Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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