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Private JAMES ALPHONSE DOWNING

Service Number: SX8981
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 8 Div. Amn. Sub Park

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1943

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

A7. A. 2.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot A7

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Elijah and Mary Graham Downing.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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