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Private ROBERT JOSEPH BIRKETT

Service Number: 4696799
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 29 December 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DIGBOI WAR CEMETERY

4.E.5.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James B. Birkett and Isabella Birkett, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Florence Ethel Birkett, of Scotswood, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING TOO, I REMEMBER YOU
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Buried or commemorated at

DIGBOI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 200
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