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Lieutenant BRIAN BYRNE

Service Number: 228385
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 January 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

27. B. 5.

Myanmar

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Thomas Byrne and Ethel Byrne, of Fairhaven, Lytham-St.-Annes, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. "A BODY OF ENGLAND'S BREATHING ENGLISH AIR"

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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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