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Corporal JOHN MATTHEW CLAYTON

Service Number: 4592961
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

IV. G. 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lister Clayton, and of Alice Clayton, of Balby, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SAFELY, SAVIOUR IN THY KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1067
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