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Private WALTER SCOWEN

Service Number: 6011787
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 November 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY

5. G. 14.

Eritrea

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Edward and Amy Victoria Scowen, of Leyton, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription HE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE

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Buried or commemorated at

KEREN WAR CEMETERY
Eritrea
Number of casualties: 440
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