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Captain JAMES KEITH COPELAND

Service Number: 160167
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

5. F. 11.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 25th Dragoons Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Matthew Henry Copeland, and of Hilda Marguerite Copeland, of Worthing, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN THE FLOWER OF HIS YOUTH. SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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