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Lieutenant JOHN GARLAND BOSHELL

Service Number: 219220
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 28 November 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6C. Row C. Grave 16.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Northamptonshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Sharland Boshell and Bessie Eleanor Boshell, of Streatham Common, London. His brother Edward Raymond also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription HOME ADDRESS:- "MYOSOTIS", CROWN LANE, STREATHAM COMMON, LONDON, ENGLAND
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