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Corporal ROBERT JAMES DOWNEY

Service Number: 7877018
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 23 November 1943

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

3. D. 13.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Downey and of Sarah Downey (nee Graham); husband of Dorothy Elizabeth Downey, of Wallisdown, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 947
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