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Major PHILIP GERVAISE BIRKIN

Service Number: 50165
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Horse Artillery

426 Bty., 107 (The South Notts. Hussars) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1942

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

Coll. grave 4. E. 20.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. Philip Austin Birkin, and Frances Emily Birkin, of Nottingham.

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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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