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Corporal JOHN NELTHORPE

Service Number: 4386434
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1940

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OYE-PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row 4. Grave 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Helen Nelthorpe; husband of Mary Nelthorpe, of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription TREASURED MEMORIES OF A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND DADDY. MARY, JOHN AND MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

OYE-PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 110
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