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Thomas Joseph Fairfax-Cookson

In memory of:

Gunner Thomas Joseph Fairfax-Cookson

May 12, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

924426

Age:

27

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Artillery

Division:

17 Coast Regt.,

Additional Information


Son of Gabriel and Elizabeth Fairfax-Cookson, of Mary, Dorsetshire.

Commemorated on Page 302 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

PRAGUE WAR CEMETERY
Czech Republic

Grave Reference:

I. A. 2.

Location:

PRAGUE WAR CEMETERY is, in fact, a British plot adjoining a boundary wall on the north side of the Civil Cemetery of Olsany. Olsany is on the eastern outskirts of Prague about 3 kilometres from the centre of the city on the main road from Prague to Strasnice, which runs due east from Wenceslas Square. The approach to the PRAGUE WAR CEMETERY is the first turning left from the main road past the entrance gates of the Civil Cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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