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Private JOHN SMITH BLACKBURN

Service Number: 14660467
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 February 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO

I. G. 4.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Emily Jane Blackburn; husband of Amelia Blackburn, of Wrose, Shipley, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SOME DAY WE WILL MEET AGAIN IN HEAVEN
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO
Italy
Number of casualties: 2317
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