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Private SYDNEY JAMES WATT MACGOWAN

Service Number: 14317303
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Date of Death

Died 15 March 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

4. H. 22.

Myanmar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and No. 5 Commando
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth MacGowan; husband of Jessie MacGowan (nee Robertson), of Stirling.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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