Person    | Male  Died 21/6/1999

Sargeant Balram Raj

Countries: Serbia

War dead, Other war i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in a war, not WW1 or WW2.

Sargeant Balram Raj

Resident of Durga Chowk.  From 69 Gurkha Field Squadron, 36 Royal Engineers, killed while trying to clear mines and booby traps from a school in Negrovce, 20 miles west of Pristina, Kosovo. Two civilians were killed in the blast and a third injured.

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