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Skipper GEORGE KNAGGS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Reserve

H.M.S. Lanka

Date of Death

Died 30 April 1944

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY

7. E. 1.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James T. Knaggs and Rachel Knaggs; husband of Annie Knaggs, of North Shields, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription FOR HIS COUNTRY'S SAKE HIS LIFE WAS GIVEN, A HERO NOW WITH GOD IN HEAVEN
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Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 203
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