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Corporal JAMES BRITTAIN

Service Number: 5676434
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 July 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

VI. E. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jenny Brittain, of Gurney Slade, Somerset; husband of Queenie Irene Brittain, of Gurney Slade.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF MY DARLING HUSBAND, DADDY OF KEITH. HIS LOVING WIFE QUEEN.- R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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