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Leading Seaman JOHN BLACKBURN

Service Number: W/3576
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 04 March 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6C. Row G. Grave 20.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Husband of Florence E. M. Blackburn, of Wellington City, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 385
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