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Captain JOHN ALDERSON

Service Number: 113655
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

Date of Death

Died 08 April 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

13. B. 1.

Germany

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and No. 3 Commando
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of John Henry and Dorothy Alderson; husband of Diana Mary Alderson, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription "GLAD DID I LIVE AND GLADLY DIE, AND I LAID ME DOWN WITH A WILL"
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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