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Corporal JOSEPH ATHERTON

Service Number: PLY/X103460
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

No. 46 R.M. Commando.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VA. G. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Ann J. Atherton, of Lower Ince, Lancashire; husband of Mary Atherton, of Lower Ince.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A HAPPY MEMORY HIS ABSENCE A SILENT GRIEF
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