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Corporal
Arthur Bland Cornish
Wiltshire Regiment
1st Battalion
Service
February 1944, the First Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, were in second line of defence in Burma. The regiment were ordered into action when 5th and 7th Indian Divisions were surrounded by Japanese troops.
They were sent over the Ghopy pass to relieve 7th Indian Division who were surrounded and being attacked, the Indian division were being cut to pieces by the Japanese.
Arthur was killed in this action.
Died
Age 27
1944/02/14
Killed in Action Burma
Loved Ones
Son of Edith Vera Cornish
Husband of Beryl Winifred Cornish
Memorial
11. D. 22.
TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”
Information
Charles Bamford
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
KEW Files:- WO 304/15, WO417/72, WO417/73, WO417/76
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