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Corporal JOHN ALBERT SPERRING

Service Number: FX1608
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

1 H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 26 March 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 1.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ada Sperring; husband of Gladys Evelyn Sperring, of Islington, London.
  • Personal Inscription THO' YOU ARE FAR AWAY OUR LOVE WILL LIVE FOR EVER. WIFE, BABY, MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 366
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