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Private JOHN OVENS

Service Number: 10251
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Pioneer Battalion

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

VIII. B. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of John and Martha Ovens, of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland; husband of Eva Ovens, of Dannevirke, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 5572
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