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Able Seaman LESLIE ROWE

Service Number: D/JX 309728
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Glenearn.

Date of Death

Died 11 April 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

FF. A. 5.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Victor and Margaret Rowe, of Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
  • Personal Inscription A STAR SHINES OVER A DISTANT GRAVE OF ONE WE LOVED BUT COULD NOT SAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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