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Company Quartermaster Serjeant JOHN HENRY NORCUP

Service Number: 2306658
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1942

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6B. Row J. Grave 16.

Sri Lanka

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Norcup and stepson of Mary Norcup; husband of Mildred Catherine Norcup, of West Brampton, Newcastle, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription TREASURED MEMORIES OF A DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND AND DAD. EVERLASTING LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 385
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