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Corporal JOHN WILLIAM FORSTER

Service Number: 3594724
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY

3. G. 7.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Blanche Forster, of Workington, Cumberland; husband of Marion Forster, of Salterbeck, Workington.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN. HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1603
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