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Battery Quartermaster Serjeant JOHN (JACK) GENESE

Service Number: 21633
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

6th Ammunition Col.

Date of Death

Died 23 November 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

XXI. Y. 29.

Iraq

Headstone of Battery Quartermaster Serjeant John (Jack) Genese, 21633. Cas ID 633521 Photograph taken April 2023

Photographer: Sarah Quinn

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Matilda Genese (nee Hunt), of 11, Elliscombe Rd., Charlton, London; husband of Amy Alstin McKenna (formerly Genese). Served in South African Campaign with 66th Bty. Born at Pembroke Dock.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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