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Captain JOHN ERIC OTTO ROELOFSEN

Service Number: 73410
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 12 November 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEROS WAR CEMETERY

2. B. 11.

Greece

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4th Bn. The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jan Adolph and Anna Mathilde Wilhelmine Roelofsen, of Redcar, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE WALKED OUT INTO THE DARKNESS AND PUT HIS HAND INTO THE HAND OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

LEROS WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 183
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