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Signalman JOHN LEES

Service Number: 2325743
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Hong Kong Sig. Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

4. E. 14.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Lees and Eliza Jane Lees, of Hadfield, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
China, (including Hong Kong)
Number of casualties: 695
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