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Lance Corporal FRED BLACKBURN

Service Number: 4535338
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 August 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. B. 28.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Eliza Blackburn, of Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire; husband of Gladys Hilda Lois Blackburn.

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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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