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Flight Sergeant GEORGE KEIR

Service Number: 1056140
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

244 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 15 July 1943

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 8. J. 2-3.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Jane Ann Keir, of Montrose, Angus.
  • Personal Inscription AND THE SUN WENT DOWN WHILST IT WAS YET DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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