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Captain JOHN SPENCER COMPTON

Service Number: 87740
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

33 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

II. B. 11.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. Edmund Spencer Compton, M.C., and Beatrice Compton; husband of Moira Edith Compton, of South Kensington, London. B.A. (Oxon.): New College.
  • Personal Inscription "HE NOTHING COMMON DID OR MEAN" REQUIESCAT IN PACE
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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