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Private JOHN JOSIAH NEWPORT

Service Number: G/940
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 May 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. J. 17.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Olive Newport, of Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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