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Trooper JOHN ROGER MICHAEL BLAKISTON

Service Number: 14262806
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 16 December 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY

V. D. 9.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilfrid Robert Louis and Mary Gilmore Blakiston, of Henfield, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription "HE ASKED LIFE OF THEE, THOU GAVEST IT HIM; EVEN LENGTH OF DAYS FOR EVER AND EVER"
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Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1591
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