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Military service
Service number:
CDN/410
Age:
21
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South Wales Borderers
Birth:
November 5, 1922
Kingston, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 30, 1942
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
June 12, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21, Column 2.
Additional information
Ernest E. Cockburn was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the South Wales Borderers as a CANLOAN Officer.
Son of Lt.-Col. Ernest Cockburn and Emily E. Cockburn, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 276 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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