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Serjeant JOSEPH FERNANDO

Service Number: 1856
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Ceylon Garrison Artillery

1 Coast Regt.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 5F. Row E. Grave 4.

Sri Lanka

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stephen Fernando and Peduru Anthonial Fernando; husband of Murial Mary Fernando, of Kotahena, Ceylon.
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 385
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