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Serjeant JOHN GEORGE YATES

Service Number: 13005303
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1945

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUNDERLAND (BISHOPWEARMOUTH) CEMETERY

Ward 31. Sec. C.C. Grave 468.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Rose Hannah Yates, of Sunderland; husband of Maggie Florence Yates, of Sunderland.
  • Personal Inscription "HE SAID, PEACE, AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM"
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Buried or commemorated at

SUNDERLAND (BISHOPWEARMOUTH) CEMETERY
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 431
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