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Pilot Officer DONALD GORDON COBDEN

Service Number: 41552
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

74 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 9. Row 3. Grave 24.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Palmerston Cobden and Mabel Elizabeth Cobden, of Papanui, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 432
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