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Lance Serjeant WALTER DAVID COWAN

Service Number: 959499
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY

6. A. 4.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Lang Cowan and Helen Cowan, of Largs, Ayrshire.
  • Personal Inscription "UNTIL WE MEET"
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Buried or commemorated at

KANDY WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 203
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