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Gunner JOHN ALEXANDER GORDON COCKBURN

Service Number: 14326760
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

61 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXII. E. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Helen McCombie Cockburn, of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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