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Lance Corporal JOHN HORACE BURTONSHAW

Service Number: G/4829
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

XVI. X. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Selina Maud Burtonshaw, of 125, Church Fields Rd., Beckenham, Kent.
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Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3561
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