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Private JOHN MAY

Service Number: 3/28340
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 03 February 1919

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITTLESEY CEMETERY

A. 17. 5.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (532416) 683rd Agricultural Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John May; husband of Alice May, of 36, Armstrong St., West Marsh, Grimsby.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITTLESEY CEMETERY
Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 20
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