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Sapper SAMUEL DOWNES

Service Number: 359717
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

8th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Sect.

Date of Death

Died 22 January 1919

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELGRADE CEMETERY

III. D. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Eliza Ann Downes, of 112, Milton St., Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH HIM TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

BELGRADE CEMETERY
Namur Belgium
Number of casualties: 250
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