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Lieutenant Colonel HERBERT COOPER CANNON

Service Number: 146146
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1944

Age 51 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY

I. B. 14.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly of The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Eliza Cannon.
  • Personal Inscription "ALIKUWA RAFIKI YETU"
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Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 203
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