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Flight Sergeant VERNE EDWARD COCKROFT

Service Number: 425605
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURGENT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Harry David and Emma Andrews Cockroft, of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription DAUNTLESS YOU LEAPT TO HEIGHTS UNTOLD. DYING, YOU LIVE FOR EVER BELOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

COURGENT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Yvelines France
Number of casualties: 7
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