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Private DESMOND PERCIVAL BLACKBURN

Service Number: 2382330
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Catering Corps

Date of Death

Died 03 April 1947

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMILTON (BENT) CEMETERY

New Western Extn. Sec. G. Grave 325.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander John and Jeanie Campbell Blackburn, of Hamilton; husband of Mary Blackburn, of Hamilton.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY'S GARDEN WE MEET EVERY DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

HAMILTON (BENT) CEMETERY
Lanarkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 51
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