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Lance Corporal JOHN DOUGLAS LONGSTAFF

Service Number: 5383479
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

2. E. 4.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ebeneezer and Ethel Longstaff, of Appleby, Westmorland.
  • Personal Inscription HE HAS NOT GONE FROM THOSE HE LOVED, JUST ENTERED GOD'S ABODE
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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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