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Lance Corporal GEORGE HENRY GERALD DAVID DOWNING

Service Number: 14409625
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 March 1945

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

33. D. 3.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry Downing, and of Clarice Mary Downing, of Rushall, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY THE SUNSHINE HE MISSED ON LIFE'S JOURNEY BE FOUND IN GOD'S HAVEN OF REST
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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