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Trooper ARTHUR EDMUND BIRKIN

Service Number: 7951434
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

51st (The Leeds Rifles)

Date of Death

Died 14 September 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRADARA WAR CEMETERY

II, A, 33.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cyril Birkin, and of Annie Birkin (nee Holmes); husband of Eva Avis Birkin (nee Green), of Underwood, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription YOUR SMILE HAS GONE BUT BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES REMAIN. LOVING WIFE AVIS. MUM, DAD & MARY
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Buried or commemorated at

GRADARA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1192
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