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Captain JOHN CROSSLAND

Service Number: 96765
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

I. D. 15.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 147th Inf. Bde.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Dan and Annie Crossland, of Oakes, Huddersfield.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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