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Lance Corporal JOHN BEARE

Service Number: 1871471
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

40 Fortress Coy.

Date of Death

Died 14 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Brit. Sec. E. D. 11.

Japan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Katharine Beare, and stepson of William Henry Williams, of Dorchester, Dorsetshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Japan
Number of casualties: 1689
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