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Private JOHN ELI SHEPHERD

Service Number: 14427000
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 September 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY

IV.A.24.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Eli Shepherd, and of Doris Shepherd, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription BENEATH FOREIGN SKIES FAR FROM THE MOTHER WHO LOVED HIM DEAR, IN A HERO'S GRAVE HE LIES
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Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 400
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