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Corporal JAMES BIRKBECK

Service Number: 5188729
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

2. N. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth Birkbeck; husband of Phyllis Birkbeck, of Swannington, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR LOVED ONES DEAR, MAY GOD FOR EVER KEEP HIM NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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