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Captain JOHN PHILLIPS ELTON

Service Number: 71061
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 06 May 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY

3. B. 8.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Frederic and Kathleen Eliza Elton; husband of Sheila Rosemary Elton, of Ripon, Yorkshire. B.A. (Cantab.).
  • Personal Inscription BRING ME, O GOD, AT MY LAST AWAKENING TO THE GATE OF HEAVEN AND TO THY GLORY
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