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Gunner EDWARD BURNS

Service Number: 954205
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY

Row J. Grave 27.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Edward and Sarah Eleanor Burns, of Ulverston, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription IN SACRED MEMORY
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Buried or commemorated at

DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY
Kent United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 773
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