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Captain DAVID LESLIE BIRNEY

Service Number: 75991
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

Date of Death

Died 28 April 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESCOUBLAC-LA-BAULE WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 9.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and No. 2 Commando
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Charles Folliott Birney, D.S.O. and Rachel Dorothy Dallas Birney; husband of Cecilie Mercedes Randell Birney, of New Milton, Hampshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

ESCOUBLAC-LA-BAULE WAR CEMETERY
Loire-Atlantique France
Number of casualties: 329
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