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Driver JAMES NELSON BLACKBURN

Service Number: 2072672
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

276 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

5. B. 2.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Nelson Blackburn and Jeanie Blackburn; husband of Hannah Blackburn, of Ayr.
  • Personal Inscription WE LOVED YOU SO MUCH AND SPEAK OF YOU OFTEN GOD BLESS YOU, JIM YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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