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Signalman JOHN BIRCH

Service Number: 14573778
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 27 December 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY

8. B. 3.

Sudan

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Sudan Defence Force
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emmanuel Cadman and Selina Howarth Birch, husband of Elsie Birch, of Failsworth, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS NO DEATH. THE LOVE OF GOD TOOK THEE TO LIVE ANEW WITH HIS GREAT BEAUTY
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Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY
Sudan
Number of casualties: 842
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