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Trooper FRANCIS HENRY DOWNES

Service Number: 7937024
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)

Date of Death

Died 03 November 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

V. D. 7.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Mary Ann Downes; husband of Lucy Downes, of Ketton, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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