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Lance Corporal JOHN MARLBOROUGH WAILES

Service Number: 2660599
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

RE 4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 February 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

43. B. 8.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John R. and Dinah Wailes, w of Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SOME DAY, SOME TIME, WHEN OUR TASK IS DONE, WE SHALL MEET OUR TREASURE AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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