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Private ERNEST STANLEY DOWNTON

Service Number: 27475
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 August 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

III. D. 14.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Jane Downton, of Little Bredy, Dorchester.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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