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Lance Corporal JOSEPH COWAN

Service Number: 6920277
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

18th Div. Provost Coy.

Date of Death

Died 02 June 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B4. O. 10.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B4

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Charlotte Cowan; husband of Norah Cowan, of Cheam, Sutton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription HE SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD. WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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