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Boom Skipper JOSEPH WILLIAM STURMAN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Reserve

H.M.S. Barfoam

Date of Death

Died 20 June 1942

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOMBASA (MBARAKI) CEMETERY

Prot. Service Plot. Row E. Grave 29.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Annie Elizabeth Sturman, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

MOMBASA (MBARAKI) CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 228
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