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Trooper JOHN FINLAY BLAIR

Service Number: 7944609
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

17th/21st Lancers

Date of Death

Died 11 October 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

IV. B. 17.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Finlay Blair and Jane Cessford Blair; husband of Marian Blair, of Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription VERY DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARION MASON AND DADDY OF RONA
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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