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Lance Corporal PETER JOHN SOUTHWELL

Service Number: 5507635
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

1st Airborne Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SHAFTESBURY BOROUGH CEMETERY

Grave 822.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John T. Southwell and Alice E. Southwell, of Northampton.
  • Personal Inscription "THY WILL BE DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

SHAFTESBURY BOROUGH CEMETERY
Dorset United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 39
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