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Trooper COLIN DOWNES

Service Number: 3391938
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XXII. C. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Willie and Lizzie Downes, of Salford, Lancashire, England; husband of Maisie Ethel Downes, of Salford.
  • Personal Inscription HEARTS THAT HAVE LOVED NEVER FORGET
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