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Private JOHN DONALD ELSON

Service Number: 5350431
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cheshire Regiment

2nd Bn

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

Coll. grave V. H. 1-4.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles William and Lily Elson, of Winton, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription GONE FROM OUR MIDST BUT NOT FROM OUR LOVE, GONE TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE

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Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1067
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