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Private JOSEPH CASSON

Service Number: 14674155
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE

IV. B. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David and Mary Ellen Casson, of Whitehaven, Cumberland. His brother Robert Casson also fell.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY R.I.P. THEY DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 988
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