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Gunner JAMES DANKS

Service Number: 812747
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Horse Artillery

2 Regt.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

4. B. 14.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Phoebe Danks, of Leamore, Walsall, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription TO THIS THOUGHT WE CLING; HE DIED SERVING OTHERS, HIS COUNTRY AND HIS KING

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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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