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Private JOSEPH RAWNSLEY

Service Number: 11408408
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Suffolk Regiment

Date of Death

Died 18 April 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HANOVER WAR CEMETERY

7. H. 2.

Germany

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ephraim and Doris Rawnsley; husband of Isabelle Rawnsley, of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE CANNOT, LORD, THY PURPOSE SEE BUT ALL IS WELL THAT'S DONE BY THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

HANOVER WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 2455
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