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Trooper JOHN SWAN BATLEY

Service Number: 7905214
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

3rd

Date of Death

Died 26 December 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

N. 82.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Matilda Batley, of Putney, London.
  • Personal Inscription WHILE ON THIS EARTH HE DID HIS BEST, WE LEAVE THE LORD TO DO THE REST
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2865
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