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Lieutenant JOHN CHRISTOPHER CLOSE

Service Number: 74503
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

4. B. 45.

Thailand

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1. H.A.A. Regt. Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Sir Charles Frederick Arden-Close, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., F.R.S., and of Lady Arden-Close (nee Percival), of Winchester.
  • Personal Inscription COMMANDED DETACHMENT 1ST HY.A.A. REGIMENT, H.K.S.,R.A., KOTA BAHRU, 8TH DECEMBER 1941
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