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Flying Officer GEOFFREY WILLIAM DOWNE

Service Number: 400463
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 15 August 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GENT CITY CEMETERY

18. 6. 3.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest James Downe and Mary Hutton Downe, of Balwyn, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS FOR YOU THE MEMORY OF LIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

GENT CITY CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 198
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