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Private JAMES SLY

Service Number: 14824375
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

12th (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 July 1945

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COVENTRY (LONDON ROAD) CEMETERY

Square 334. Grave 181.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Marion Sly, of Stoke, Coventry.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS ALL, AN UNFINISHED LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

COVENTRY (LONDON ROAD) CEMETERY
Warwickshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 226
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