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Serjeant JOHN WILLIAM ROCHESTER

Service Number: 659
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

1st/2nd (Durham) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

QUARRY CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN

IV. C. 5.

France

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Photographer: T Wright

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Photographer: T Wright

Photos of cemeteries and churchyards in Scotland, taken in 2009 by Iain Anderson, RS and shared on CD: headstones in Ayr Cemetery

Photographer: Iain Anderson

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Photographer: T Wright

Good condition. Upright and sound. Lettering is in good condition. No grass around the stone. Muddy.

Photographer: A. B Wright

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Photographer: T Wright

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Jane Ann Rochester, of 9, Cotfield St., Bensham Rd., Gateshead.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

QUARRY CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN
Somme France
Number of casualties: 755
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