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Corporal JOHN THOMAS TRANTER

Service Number: 14247218
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 June 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XV. H. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Fanny Tranter; husband of Miriam Tranter, of Wolverhampton.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK FROM US A SHINING LIGHT HIS PLACE NO ONE CAN FILL. HIS DEVOTED WIFE MIRIAM
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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