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Private WALTER JOHN COCKBURN

Service Number: 6471424
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

III. B. 19.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ethel Cockburn; husband of Edith Letitia Cockburn, of Erith, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription CHERISHED MEMORIES OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND. DEARLY LOVED AND SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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