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Lieutenant JOHN SPURLING HANSEN BAY

Service Number: 140685
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1941

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

8. D. 6.

Libya

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lauritz and Celia Hansen Bay; husband of Betty Hansen Bay, of South Holmwood, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription "AND LEAVE THE STONE UNFILLED FOR ALL HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN, FOR HE DIED YOUNG"
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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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