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Captain DESMOND THOMAS KAVANAGH

Service Number: 204081
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

250 (Airborne) Lt. Comp. Coy.

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

6. B. 1.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Peter James Kavanagh and Mary Josephine Kavanagh, of Aintree, Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE THAN THIS NO MAN HATH. PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF A BRAVE IRISH BOY. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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