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Lance Corporal WILFRED LAWRENCE DOWSE

Service Number: 4388920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

Sp. Mem. 16. G. 12.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert and Lucy Dowse, of Bridlington, Yorkshire; husband of Rose Marion Dowse, of Bridlington.
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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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