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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM RILEY

Service Number: 14307523
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1945

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARROW-IN-FURNESS (THORNCLIFFE) CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM

Sec. 3. C. of E. Grave 1634.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Mary Riley; husband of Elizabeth Riley, of Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS A TOKEN OF LOVE TO ONE WE SHALL NEVER FORGET HIS MEMORY IS A TREASURE HIS LOSS WE'LL ALWAYS REGRET
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