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Private JOHN LESLIE SMITHSON

Service Number: 14659779
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 July 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXI. A. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Henry and Emily Jane Smithson, of Lamas, Norfolk.
  • Personal Inscription A LIGHT IS GONE A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILL A PLACE IS VACANT WE CAN NEVER FILL
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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