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Captain JOHN BELFIELD EDMUND FRANKLYN

Service Number: 249200
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 September 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

10. B. 1.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., and Lady Franklyn, of Charing, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription SON AND GRANDSON OF GREEN HOWARDS, BOTH COLONELS OF THE REGIMENT
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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