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Chief Petty Officer JOHN ALFRED ORAM DOWNS

Service Number: C/218378
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Pembroke

Date of Death

Died 02 December 1939

Age 54 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITBY (LARPOOL) CEMETERY

Grave 4267.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Minnie Downs; husband of Annie Downs.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITBY (LARPOOL) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 106
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