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Fourth Officer JOHN CROSBY TAWS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

H.M. Telegraph Ship Alert.

Date of Death

Died 24 February 1945

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OYE-PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row 2. Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Rose A. Taws; husband of Peggy E. M. Taws, of Falmouth, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

OYE-PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 110
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