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Lance Serjeant JOHN GARDINER

Service Number: 7891466
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st Derbyshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 07 May 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

II. J. 8.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of John Gardiner and of Ellen Gardiner (nee Stein), of Clackmannan; husband of Mabel Gardiner.
  • Personal Inscription HE SLEEPS 'NEATH SOME FOREIGN SKIES FAR FROM THOSE WHO LOVED HIM IN A HERO'S GRAVE HE LIES
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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