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Sergeant JOHN PRIMROSE WILSON

Service Number: 1108051
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

222 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 27 February 1942

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PIHEN-LES-GUINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row C. Grave 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Smith Wilson and Catherine Wingate Wilson, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. His brother, William Primrose Wilson, also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
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