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Major JOHN BENTFIELD CLEMONS

Service Number: 117372
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

214th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

IV. C. 21.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of George Bentfield Clemons and Esther Sarah Annette Clemons, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription NOT BY THE SPAN OF A MAN'S LIFE BUT BY THE DEEDS WHICH HE HAS DONE SHALL HE BE JUDGED
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Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1855
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