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Private ROBERT ERNEST DOWNING

Service Number: 4392496
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUS HOUSE CEMETERY

AA. 28.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Robert and Beatrice May Downing, of Dormanstown, Redcar, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription TILL MEMORY FADES AND LIFE DEPARTS HE WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

BUS HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 287
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