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Captain ARTHUR JOHN CECIL STANTON

Service Number: 73088
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

14th/20th King's Hussars

Date of Death

Died 29 January 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

F. D. 1.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2/9 Bn. Australian Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Brigadier General F. H. G. Stanton and Hilda Margaret Stanton, of Greystoke, Cumberland. Awarded King's Gold Medal and Sword, R.M.C. Sandhurst, July, 1937.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD & LOVING MEMORY. "A MAN'S LIFE IS IMMORTAL UNTIL HIS WORK IS DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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