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Captain JOHN EDGAR WHITFIELD

Service Number: 164657
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 08 March 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

23. G. 8.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Martin Whitfield and Margery Whitfield, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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