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Ordinary Seaman DESMOND PATRICK GREELEY

Service Number: V/58022
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 18 February 1944

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. E. 23.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William John and Ellen Greeley, of Amprior, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription AND WHILE HE LIES IN PEACEFUL SLEEP HIS MEMORY WE SHALL ALWAYS KEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 366
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