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Serjeant JOHN WILLIAM WILTSHIRE

Service Number: 135770
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 16 May 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAFENWA MILITARY CEMETERY

War Graves Plot. Row G. Grave 11.

Nigeria

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Anthony and Helen Mabel Wiltshire, of Kingswood, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription IN GOD'S SAFE KEEPING. PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF YOU. MUM, GRACE, HERBERT AND NOREEN
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Buried or commemorated at

LAFENWA MILITARY CEMETERY
Nigeria
Number of casualties: 171
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