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Brigadier JOHN RUSSELL GRAY

Service Number: 2561
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Infantry

Date of Death

Died 05 July 1942

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

I. G. 19.

Egypt

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 4th N.Z. Inf. Bde.
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Efficiency Decoration, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew and Marie Glasgow (formerly Rainey); husband of Isabel Florence Gray of Remuera, Auckland.
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EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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