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Private JAMES WILLIAM COCKBURN

Service Number: L/154196
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

Date of Death

Died 25 July 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 13.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William James Cockburn and Rachel May Cockburn, of Briercrest, Saskatchewan.
  • Personal Inscription "WHILE THE BATTLE RAGED AND WILD WINDS BLEW I HEARD HIS VOICE AND PERFECT PEACE I KNEW"
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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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