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Gunner JOHN MONTAGUE MELLES

Service Number: 209441
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

296th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 08 October 1918

Age 44 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VADENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, MAISSEMY

III. C. 22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Wright Waterhouse Melles and Amelia Melles, of Stowmarket, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription "THERE IS A NATURAL BODY AND THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BODY" I COR. XV. 44
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Buried or commemorated at

VADENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, MAISSEMY
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 760
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