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Flying Officer JOHN WILLIAM GRAAFSTRA

Service Number: 39381
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

242 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Sarah Bingham Graafstra, of Souris, Manitoba, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 6
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