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Petty Officer WALTER ERNEST SMITH

Service Number: R/JX174907
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Lanka.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1942

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 18.

Sri Lanka

All the Individual Headstones from Trincomalee Cemetery, Sri Lanka

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
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Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 366
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