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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN WINN ATHERTON

Service Number: 24773
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1944

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXIV. E. 20.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 5th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Son of John Augustus and Sarah Elisabeth Atherton; husband of Peggy Atherton, of Weymouth, Dorsetshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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