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Second Lieutenant LAURENCE JOHN CAMPION

Service Number: 312992
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 21.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment seconded to 7th Bn. Hampshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest John and Doris Veronica Campion, of New Barnet, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription A CHEERFUL SMILE A HEART OF GOLD THE FINEST SON THE WORLD COULD HOLD
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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