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Private MAURICE ALFRED DOWN

Service Number: 5437850
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AVELGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row C. Grave 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick George and Susan Mabel Down, of Fawley, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription SWEETEST THOUGHTS SHALL EVER LINGER AROUND THE PLACE WHERE THOU ART LAID
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