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Guardsman JAMES SOWERBY

Service Number: 2622221
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

Date of Death

Died 27 October 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY

I, B, 14.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 24 Guards Bde.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Lily Sowerby, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF OUR JIM
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Buried or commemorated at

CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 502
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