Casualty Details

Name: RUSSELL, JOHN TINSLEY
Initials: J T
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry
Unit Text: Cdg. 22nd (Motor) Bn.
Age: 38
Date of Death: 06/09/1942
Service No: 1045
Awards: D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of Andrew Hamilton Russell and Gertrude Russell, of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand; husband of Rosamond Russell (nee Rolleston), of Sanson, Wellington, New Zealand.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 25.
Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY