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Corporal JOHN SMILES

Service Number: 4444881
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 13 February 1940

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

7. D. 12.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Jane Smiles; husband of Edith Smiles, of Grangetown, Sunderland, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 967
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