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Gunner JOHN SKEVINGTON

Service Number: 77976
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

49th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 06 September 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES

II. A. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Sarah Elizabeth Skevington, of Morley, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription THE LORD GAVE & THE LORD TAKETH AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1172
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