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Corporal SAMUEL JOHN EDWARDS

Service Number: 655962
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 11 October 1941

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOWNEND (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD

N.W. of church.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Gray Edwards and Lily Maud Edwards; husband of Vera Edwards, of Fishponds, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription LET NOT HIS SACRIFICE BE IN VAIN HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

DOWNEND (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 18
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