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Signalman JOHN JOSEPH NEWTON

Service Number: 2573639
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 08 March 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

17. C. 15.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 19th Indian Div. Sigs. Indian Signal Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Minnie Newton, of Hall Green, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH SEAS DIVIDE FROM WHERE YOU LIE THE MEMORY OF YOU WILL NEVER DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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