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Corporal JOHN ALEXANDER FORSTER

Service Number: 4273913
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

2. J. 7.

Thailand

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Alfred and Ethel Miller Forster, of Berwick-on-Tweed.
  • Personal Inscription WE LONG FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Thailand
Number of casualties: 6982
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