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Sergeant JOHN SYKES

Service Number: 1014079
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

9 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 20 December 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTERHOUT PROTESTANT CEMETERY

Grave 92.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Bertram and Mary Elizabeth Sykes, of Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription PROUD MEMORIES OF MY DEAR SON JOHN WHO GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTERHOUT PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 11
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