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Trooper JOSEPH BESSON

Service Number: 3656993
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

Date of Death

Died 13 April 1944

Buried or commemorated at

MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Sec. Y. C. of E. Grave 1628.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Doris May Besson, of Brooks's Bar, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF YOU, JOE. GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1270
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