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Corporal JOHN SMITH

Service Number: 408867
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

VI. C. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Helen Smith; husband of Edna Smith, of Easington Colliery, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED AND ON THAT GOLDEN SHORE AWAITS THEIR COMING
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 809
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