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Private JOHN FRANCIS WILSON

Service Number: 4853336
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1940

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LILLE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot 7. Row A. Grave 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Wilson, and of Mary Wilson, of Silverdale, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST GIVE TO HIM, O LORD. MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

LILLE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 618
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