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Company Quartermaster Serjeant JAMES NORTON ASBURY

Service Number: NB/91
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's African Rifles

Date of Death

Died 25 July 1940

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI (FOREST ROAD) CEMETERY

Block 16. Grave 72.

Kenya

Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery, Kenya: photos received by HO Information & Communication ahead of the Special Committee report, March 2021

Photographer: Jackson Mwangi Photography

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Sarah Anne Asbury, of Brentford, Middlesex.
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Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI (FOREST ROAD) CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 116
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