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Second Lieutenant JOHN WALTER METSON

Service Number: 265835
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Suffolk Regiment

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1943

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. J. 46.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Ethel Maude Metson, of Littleport, Cambridgeshire.
  • Personal Inscription VIRILITER AGITE ESTOTE FORTES "OLD CULFORDIAN"
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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