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Major JOHN KENNETH SHIPTON

Service Number: 145344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GAUHATI WAR CEMETERY

1.H.12.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Gurkha Rifles
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard and Edith Winifred Shipton; husband of Phyllis Sarah Shipton, of Bedford.
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Buried or commemorated at

GAUHATI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 512
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