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Private PERCY WILLIAM BOWDEN

Service Number: 5384161
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IIA. N. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry William and Florence Mary Bowden, of Midford, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription OUR DARLING PERCY FOR EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS. HIS EVERLOVING MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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