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Major PHILIP SWIFT MAKIN

Service Number: 161514
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Date of Death

Died 16 November 1943

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

3. E. 28.

Libya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Nigeria Regiment, R.W.A.F.F.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Lillian Makin; husband of Diana Makin, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription MEMORIES ARE TREASURES NO ONE CAN STEEL DEATH LEAVES A WOUND NO ONE CAN HEAL
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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