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Corporal JOHN LOUIS DEIGHTON

Service Number: 397778
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

27th

Date of Death

Died 17 April 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

IV. E. 9.

Italy

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Louis and Emma Deighton, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1152
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