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Lieutenant JOHN COLIN PREACHER

Service Number: 261701
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 March 1945

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILSBEEK WAR CEMETERY

I. G. 13.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Alice Lillian Preacher, of Edinburgh; husband of Maisie Elizabeth Preacher, of Edinburgh. B.L.
  • Personal Inscription "LOVE NEVER FAILETH" I. CORINTHIANS XIII.8
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Buried or commemorated at

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