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4976561 Corporal Edwin Knowles

Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of operation ‘Market’
Photograph of Hero Killed In Action


Born on: 14 Jun 1922
Died on: 18 Sep 1944
Died at: Battle of Arnhem
Aged: 26
Buried at: He was first buried in the garden of the Ter Horst family, now Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.A.18.

Rest in Peace Corporal Knowles:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.


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