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Lance Corporal JOHN ROBERT METCALFE

Service Number: 14384655
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 November 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY

I, C, 20.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Thomas Metcalfe and Sarah Ann Metcalfe; husband of Isabel Metcalfe, of Shildon, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS "THY WILL BE DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 145
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