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Company Serjeant Major JOHN MEARS

Service Number: 15/12476
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

15th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 July 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELFAST CITY CEMETERY

C. 245.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Mary Mears; husband of Katherine Mears, of 36, Fairbairn St., Glasgow. Served in the South African Campaign. Born at Woolwich, London.
  • Personal Inscription A SILENT THOUGHT A SECRET TEAR KEEPS HIS MEMORY EVER DEAR
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