15 September 2009

I/26673 Gunner Owen Carey, 1/4th Field Regt, Royal Artillery

I/26673 Gunner Owen Carey of the 1/4th Field Regt, Royal Artillery died on the 15th September 1942. He was a Glaswegian (born in Glasgow and living in Glasgow at the time of his enlistment) and he is buried in the Kanatte General Cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon at the time of his death). Own Carey was 38 years old when he died. The War Graves Photographic Project carries a photo of his grave.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

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