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Gunner JAMES MCGOWAN AITKEN

Service Number: 968474
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

149 (The Lancashire Yeo.) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

7. B. 21.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Breckenridge Aitken and Agnes McGowan Aitken; husband of Dorothy Freda Aitken, of Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED, YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN THE LAND YOU LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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