Cemetery: Ranville War Cemetery
Country: France
Area: Calvados
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Official Number: 4033715
Unit: King's Shropshire Light Infantry attd. 7th Bn. Parachute Regiment A.A.C.
Country of Service: British
Details: 22nd August 1944. Age 21. Son of William Henry James Downes and Clara Downes of Ditherington Shrewsbury Shropshire. IIIA. B. 5.
Photograph by Geoff Thorndike, Pauline & Jim Pederson