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Ordinary Signalman PETER DEREK APPLETON

Service Number: D/JX61780
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Highflyer.

Date of Death

Died 28 September 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 18.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick James Appleton and Mary Appleton, of Ilminster, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription "SOFTLY, YE WINDS, O'ER HIS DEAR YOUNG HEAD WHISPER A BENEDICTION FOR THE DEAD"
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