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Flight Sergeant JOHN BLACKSHAW

Service Number: 1062305
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 05 November 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 5. A. 1-8.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment seconded to British Overseas Airways Corporation
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth Blackshaw, of Hyde, Cheshire; husband of Laura Blackshaw, of Stockport, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription SILENT NIGHTS, LONELY NIGHTS
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Buried or commemorated at

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2061
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