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Lance Corporal JOHN WILTON DOWNES

Service Number: 2736909
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 May 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 14.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Boote Downes and Mary Jane Downes, of Minsterley, Shropshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR FREEDOM AND GAINED ETERNAL CROWN
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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