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Private KEITH KEEL BACKHURST

Service Number: 7673629
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Pay Corps

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

1. D. 12.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Alfred and Annie Backhurst, of Guildford, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription "IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE WHO PASS BY ?"
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Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
China, (including Hong Kong)
Number of casualties: 695
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