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Gunner JOHN EDWIN CORNISH

Service Number: 971720
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

166 (Newfoundland) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 05 March 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

II. G. 5.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Dinah Cornish, of Fortune Bay, Newfoundland.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN NEVER WILL HIS MEMORY FADE
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Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 4277
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