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Private JOHN ROBERT OVINGTON

Service Number: 14793944
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUSSELS TOWN CEMETERY

X. 21. 17.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Tristram and Dorothy Ovington, of Lancaster. His brother Thomas Tristram also fell.
  • Personal Inscription WE WOULD GIVE THE WORLD AND MORE TO SEE THE FACE WE LOVED COME SMILING TO THE DOOR
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