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Private JOHN ROBERT COPLAND

Service Number: VX28345
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/22 Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 February 1942

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY

A. D. 16.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Husband of Helen Cant Copland, of Reservoir, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY, FOR THE ONES HE LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 1153
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