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Bandsman JOHN EDWARD BAILEY

Service Number: 5436878
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 June 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ZWEVEGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 8.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry and Margaret May Bailey, of Carharrack, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription WE DO NOT FORGET NOR DO WE INTEND, WE THINK OF HIM DAILY AND WILL TO THE END
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Buried or commemorated at

ZWEVEGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 11
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