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Lance Corporal AUSTIN BACKHURST

Service Number: 7263979
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

133 Parachute Field Amb.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARWICK-IN-ELMET (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

Sec. L. Grave 11.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gordon and Ethel Backhurst; husband of Cecilia Backhurst, of Barwick-in-Elmet.
  • Personal Inscription MEMORIES LIVE LONGER THAN DREAMS. MIZPAH
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Buried or commemorated at

BARWICK-IN-ELMET (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 6
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