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Flight Sergeant ERIC LEO BURROWS VANES

Service Number: 1537040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

357 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY

II. D. 8.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cornelius Leo Leonard and Amelia Vanes, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR LENT IS OVER, AND THEIR EASTER WON
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Buried or commemorated at

SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY
China, (including Hong Kong)
Number of casualties: 1589
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