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Marine JOHN WILLIAM SMITH

Service Number: PLY/X104085
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

H.M.L.C.F. 1.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

2. M. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Mabel Julia Smith, of Wooler, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT" EVER REMEMBERED
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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