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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM KIRTON

Service Number: 6016920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 September 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL

Plot 13. Row G. Grave 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Eliza Kirton; husband of Dorothy Kirton, of Heathway, Dagenham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED YOU MEMORIES LINGER YET
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Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 4039
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