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Sapper JOHN REDFERN

Service Number: 1886249
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

246 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. G. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry and Sarah Elizabeth Redfern; husband of Dorothy Leila Redfern, of Halam, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription YOU WERE TAKEN WE KNOW NOT WHY BUT YOUR BEAUTIFUL MEMORY WILL NEVER DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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