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Sergeant JOHN WALTER NEEDHAM

Service Number: 742691
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

235 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1940

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OEGSTGEEST PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD

Grave 1.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Augusta Elisabeth Needham, of Kilburn, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK YOU, MY SON, FROM SORROW & PAIN: IN A BETTER WORLD WE SHALL MEET AGAIN. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

OEGSTGEEST PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD
Zuid-Holland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 17
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