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Major Sir JOHN EDMUND BACKHOUSE

Service Number: 41059
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

179 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

II. C. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info 3rd Bart. Son of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G., and of Lady Backhouse (nee Findlay); husband of Lady (Jean Marie Frances) Backhouse, of Withypool, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE THAN THIS NO MAN HATH
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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