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Driver JOHN WILLIAM BOLAM

Service Number: T/58090
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 15 December 1943

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B4. R. 1.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B4

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Margaret Bolam, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Doris Bolam, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription MILES AWAY BUT NEAR OUR HEARTS. SWEETEST MEMORIES ALWAYS. WIFE AND CHILDREN

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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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