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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM CANNING

Service Number: 4688702
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 07 January 1945

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY

II. D. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Edward and Christiana Canning; husband of Agnes Canning, of Elland, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "INTO THY KEEPING"
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
Luxembourg Belgium
Number of casualties: 668
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