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Sapper HILTON TAPPER FAIRBAIRN

Service Number: NX6936
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Engineers

A.I.F. 2/12 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

A1. B. 2.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot A1

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of George Alexander and Catherine Fairbairn; husband of Phyllis Marion Fairbairn, of Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL IN PERFECT PEACE

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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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