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Signalman JOHN BASIL KAPTEIN

Service Number: 5949480
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 27 December 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 20.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Kaptein, and of Mary Kaptein, of Shepherd's Bush, London.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST GRANT TO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE ON HIM. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 2480
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