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Trooper JOHN WHITAKER

Service Number: 3321119
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

3rd (8th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert and Jane Ann Whitaker, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Mary E. Whitaker, of Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, THAT THE ONES HE LOVED MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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