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Sapper LAWRENCE KNOWLES

Service Number: 1574877
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

245 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO

XVI. C. 12.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Israel and Mary Alice Knowles; husband of Hilda May Knowles (nee Whittaker), of Huncoat, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription "FOR KING AND COUNTRY" WIFE AND CHILD, HILDA, PAT, GRANDAD
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO
Italy
Number of casualties: 2317
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