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Corporal JOHN ALBERT SPERRING

Service Number: FX1608
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

1 H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 26 March 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 1.

Sri Lanka

All the Individual Headstones from Trincomalee Cemetery, Sri Lanka

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ada Sperring; husband of Gladys Evelyn Sperring, of Islington, London.
  • Personal Inscription THO' YOU ARE FAR AWAY OUR LOVE WILL LIVE FOR EVER. WIFE, BABY, MUM AND DAD
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