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Pioneer JOHN EDWARD DAKIN

Service Number: 44296
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

145th Army Troops Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

V. H. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elsie Turner (formerly Dakin), of Stathern, Melton Mowbray.
  • Personal Inscription "CALLED HOME" MOTHER, FATHER & BROTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3233
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