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Gunner EVAN HERBERT COOKSEY

Service Number: 1609797
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

79 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 14 October 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. G. 6.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James William and Katherine Cooksey; husband of Margaret Cooksey, of Briton Ferry, Neath, Glamorgan.
  • Personal Inscription OUR DEAREST LOVED ONE LIES LIKE MANY BRAVE SOLDIERS 'NEATH BLUE ITALIAN SKIES. ALWAYS LOVED BY WIFE & BABY
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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