Cecil Corkland

Private Cecil Corkland was a Welsh soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 22 April 1911, in Newport, the son of Russian-born travelling haberdasher Isaac and Selina Corkland (née Drachman), of Birmingham. In 1939, Corkland was working as a warehouse packer.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. 
Corkland died on 20 December 1943, during the Italian Campaign, while serving with the 5th Battalion, The Essex Regiment.
He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Corkland, Cecil, cwgc.org. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
Category:1911 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Buried in Italy
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