24 May 2010

3909314 Pte John A Rabey, 1st Bn, SWB

3909314 Private John Alwyn Rabey of the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, died on the 24th May 1945. He was 25 years old, the son of David and Violet Rabey of Morriston, Swansea. He is buried in the Odessa 2nd Christian Cemetery in the Ukraine, the only CWGC commemoration buried or commemorated there.

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

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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