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Staff Serjeant FREDERICK WILLIAM DOWNIE

Service Number: 2022901
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

275 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

X. D. 26.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick and Esther Downie; husband of Frances Mary Downie, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription A BELOVED HUSBAND WHO GAVE HIS LIFE COURAGEOUSLY THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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