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Lance Corporal GEORGE COWAN

Service Number: 3194338
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

18th Div. Provost Corps

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B1. K. 8.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B1

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Esther S. Cowan; husband of Alice H. Cowan, of Hawick, Roxburghshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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