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Serjeant JAMES SYDNEY COTTINGHAM

Service Number: 7648875
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6C. Row G. Grave 16.

Sri Lanka

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 204 Base Ordnance Depot, Indian Army Ordnance Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 385
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