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Gunner JOHN WEST

Service Number: 1570679
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

80 A/Tk. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1943

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B6. R. 7.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B6

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jean West, of Blackpool, Lancashire; husband of Irene West, of Blackpool.
  • Personal Inscription NOT DEAD BUT LIVING IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE HE LOVED. WIFE IRENE, MUM AND MILLY
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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