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Trooper JOHN COWIE

Service Number: 315432
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

12th Royal Lancers

Date of Death

Died 25 May 1940

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LENDELEDE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jessie Cowie; husband of Christina Cowie, of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP... FREE FROM CARE AND SORROW REST WHERE NONE WEEP TILL THE ETERNAL MORROW
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Buried or commemorated at

LENDELEDE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1
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