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Private JOHN STANTON GETHEN

Service Number: 14710702
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY

IX. G. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Horace William and Ethel Gethen, of Thurnscoe, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HEAVEN'S GATE BE OPENED WIDE FOR ONE WHO, FOR OUR SAKES HAS DIED. HIS MOTHER

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Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1221
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