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Private JOHN WILLIAM GLANVILLE

Service Number: 5437587
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AVELGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row D. Grave 3.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Mary Elizabeth Glanville, of Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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