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Lieutenant JOHN RICHARD AUBREY BALCHIN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

152nd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 14 November 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET

I. E. 27.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Sarah Balchin, of 50, Hillfield Rd., West Hampstead, London and the late William Henry George Balchin. Enlisted Nov., 1914, in the Hon. Artillery Company, wounded at Hooge, June, 1915.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
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