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Pioneer JOHN WILLIAM MELLING

Service Number: 290044
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

29th Light Railway Operating Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 October 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY

I. D. 38.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Brother of Walter Melling, of 39, Clegram Rd., Gloucester.
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Buried or commemorated at

SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 304
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