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Major JOHN WILLIAM POSTON

Service Number: 87368
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

11th Hussars.

Date of Death

Died 21 April 1945

Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY

15. C. 6.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel William John Lloyd Poston, D.S.O., and of Marjorie Blanch Poston, of Barnes, Surrey. Liaison Officer on General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Staff.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A GALLANT OFFICER, LOYAL FRIEND, DEVOTED SON AND BROTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 2404
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