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Driver JOHN GEORGE ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Service Number: 472318
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Engineers

7th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 May 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. B. 36A.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew A. and Janet Cockburn, of 1, Hunt Block, 23rd St., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Born at Duns, Scotland.
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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