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Lance Corporal JOHN PORTER

Service Number: 13011814
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

342 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1945

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

VIII. D. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Sarah Porter, of Nelson, Lancashire; husband of Ellen Porter, of Nelson.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HE IS WITH US YET, WE LOVED HIM SO DEARLY. WIFE AND CHILDREN
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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