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Trooper WILLIAM JOHN DOWNES

Service Number: 318589
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"B" Sqn. Warwickshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 07 July 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

I. A. 7.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Charles and Edith Elizabeth Downes, of Bromfield, Shropshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY, HIS DEATH A SILENT GRIEF
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Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1230
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