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Corporal JOHN ERNEST WILKIE

Service Number: 5953322
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welch Fusiliers

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VALKENSWAARD WAR CEMETERY

I. B. 18.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Jeanie Wilkie, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription BELOVED HUSBAND OF JEANIE. "HE SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD"
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Buried or commemorated at

VALKENSWAARD WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 222
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