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Major PERCY JOHN OVERTON

Service Number: 7/506
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1915

Buried or commemorated at

7TH FIELD AMBULANCE CEMETERY

II. A. 5.

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Husband of Hilda Margaret Overton, of Greta, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Buried or commemorated at

7TH FIELD AMBULANCE CEMETERY
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Number of casualties: 640
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