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Corporal JOHN CORNELIUS DONOVAN

Service Number: 5948533
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died Between 20 February 1943 and 21 February 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHRISTIANSBORG WAR CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row F. Grave 8.

Ghana

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5 Field Coy. West African Engineers, R.W.A.F.F.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Michael James Donovan and Florence Gertrude Donovan; husband of Gwendoline Audrey Donovan, of Kempston, Bedfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE WILL REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

CHRISTIANSBORG WAR CEMETERY
Ghana
Number of casualties: 437
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