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Bombardier WALTER COCKBURN

Service Number: 788008
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

24 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

V. B. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Adam and Christine Cowan Cockburn; husband of Elizabeth Cockburn, of Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription CHOSEN TO BE A SOLDIER IN AN ALIEN LAND, CHOSEN, CALLED AND FAITHFUL FOR OUR CAPTAIN'S BAND
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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