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Corporal JOHN EDWARD NEWLAND

Service Number: 5957889
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 September 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot A Grave 8.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Newland, and of Honor Mary Newland, of Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

LESSINES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 8
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