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Clifford R. Cooksley

Photograph at the Clifford R. Cooksley blue plaque

Near this place Clifford R. Cooksley died while bravely carrying out his duties as a Civil Defence Messenger during a major bombing raid on May 30th 1943. Clifford aged 16, of no. 22 Princes Street, Babbacombe, was the youngest Civil Defence Messenger killed in our area.

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