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Lance Corporal JOHN ASHLEY ANKERS

Service Number: 3862931
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 April 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Brit. Sec. C. D. 12.

Japan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Martha Ankers, of Moreton, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE SHALL FIND OUR MISSING TREASURE IN OUR FATHER'S MANSION FAIR
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Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Japan
Number of casualties: 1689
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