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Lance Bombardier EDMUND DAVID BURTON

Service Number: 1548410
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

79 Bty., 21 L.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 23 June 1942

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AMBON WAR CEMETERY

14. C. 9.

Indonesia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Edmund and Elizabette Emma Burton; husband of Nora Mary Burton, of Hammersmith, London.
  • Personal Inscription "MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE, NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT"
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Buried or commemorated at

AMBON WAR CEMETERY
Indonesia
Number of casualties: 2147
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