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Serjeant JOHN ASHTON

Service Number: 2721176
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Irish Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 February 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILSBEEK WAR CEMETERY

II. B. 4.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Victor and Therese Ashton, of Morecambe, Lancashire; husband of Enid Ashton, of Morecambe.
  • Personal Inscription THE ONE WE LOVED HAS GONE BEFORE, BUT WE LOVE HIM ALL THE MORE
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Buried or commemorated at

MILSBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 210
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