The story
Walter John W J Cockburn, Private served with Somerset Light Infantry, 4th Bn..
Service number: '6471424'. Date of death: 1944-08-07. Age: 30. Country: France.
Buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, grave reference III. B. 19..
SON OF JOHN AND ETHEL COCKBURN; HUSBAND OF EDITH LETITIA COCKBURN, OF ERITH, KENT.
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