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Bombardier WILLIAM DOWNEY

Service Number: 984911
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXVII. G. 9.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Bridget Downey; husband of Mary Downey (nee Smith), of New Stevenston, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LIFE HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST. O LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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