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Trooper ALEXANDER COCKBURN YOUNG

Service Number: H/1479
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Governor General's Horse Guards, R.C.A.C.

3rd Armd. Recce. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY

VIII, E, 8.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Cockburn Young and Tina Mary Young, of Grand Marais, Manitoba, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS SWEET TO REMEMBER ONE SO DEAR THOUGH ABSENT YET FOR EVER NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 775
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