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Lance Corporal JOHN EDWARD FURNESS

Service Number: 4391636
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Plot 2. Row B. Grave 16.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ethelbert and Elizabeth Furness, of Greatham, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL, SWEET JESUS, HAVE MERCY R.I.P.
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