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Lance Bombardier JOHN VENTRESS

Service Number: 838386
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

25 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 26 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

III. E. 12.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Betsy Ventress; husband of Mary Elizabeth Patience Ventress, of Thornton-le-Beans, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "THOU WAST THEIR ROCK, THEIR FORTRESS, AND THEIR MIGHT; ... IN THE WELL FOUGHT FIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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