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Sergeant JOHN WILLIAM BLAKEY

Service Number: 936547
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

7 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1941

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 6. C. 1-7.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Blakey, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. Scholar of Wakefield Grammar School.
  • Personal Inscription "WHERE IS DEATH'S STING? WHERE, GRAVE, THY VICTORY? I TRIUMPH STILL, IF THOU ABIDE WITH ME"
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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