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Canteen Manager ROBERT SIMPSON LAYBOURN

Service Number: C/NX 1592
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Canteen Service

H.M.S. Calpe.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1942

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHICKHAM (GARDEN HOUSE) CEMETERY

Plot 7. Cons. Row 95. Grave 3306.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Caroline Laybourn, of Swalwell.
  • Personal Inscription FOR ALL OF US HE DID HIS BEST GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

WHICKHAM (GARDEN HOUSE) CEMETERY
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 38
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