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Lance Corporal NORMAN GILBERT BURLING

Service Number: NX32791
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Army Labour Service

A.I.F. 8 Div. Emp. Platoon

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1943

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 1. P. 14-16.

Thailand

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of George Arthur and Mary Louisa Burling; husband of Christine Burling, of Five Dock, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR FREEDOM YET LIVES FOREVER
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Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Thailand
Number of casualties: 6982
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