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Flying Officer JOHN FARQUHAR REID

Service Number: 63443
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 18 October 1941

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VEREENIGING OLD TOWN CEMETERY

C. of E. Plot. Grave 1170.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Burnett Reid and Mary Alice Reid, of Kersal Salford, Lancashire, England.
  • Personal Inscription "IN THE GREATEST OF ALL CAUSES - HUMANITY"
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Buried or commemorated at

VEREENIGING OLD TOWN CEMETERY
Gauteng South Africa
Number of casualties: 48
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