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Captain DAVID ERNEST BURNS

Service Number: 127575
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 04 January 1943

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY

2. E. 11.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jane Burns, of Birmingham; husband of Eileen Burns, of Birmingham. A.M.I.Mech.E.
  • Personal Inscription THOSE WE LOVE LIVE ON AS LONG AS WE REMEMBER THEM

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Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 2032
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