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Lieutenant JOHN PORTER LUKE

Service Number: 330731
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

20. D. 3.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Bn. Border Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Sampson Luke and Helen Herbert Luke, of Maesbury Shropshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED, AS ALWAYS HE HAD LIVED, UNSELFISHLY
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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