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Private JOHN LEONARD RAYSON

Service Number: 1683573
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Catering Corps

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1945

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BURTON-UPON-TRENT CEMETERY

Gen. Sec. Grave 3144.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Horace and Nellie Rayson, of Burtonupon-Trent; husband of Noreen Elizabeth Rayson, of Burton-upon-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

BURTON-UPON-TRENT CEMETERY
Staffordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 153
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