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Staff Serjeant JOHN ARTHUR HIRST

Service Number: 7266159
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of Death

Died 20 November 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KHAYAT BEACH WAR CEMETERY

D. C. 5.

Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John E. Hirst and Mary Hirst; husband of Doreen Hirst.
  • Personal Inscription "THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND" DOREEN
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Buried or commemorated at

KHAYAT BEACH WAR CEMETERY
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Number of casualties: 887
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