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Sergeant JOHN WILLIAM MINCHIN

Service Number: 1181097
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

617 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 17. E. 2-6.

Germany

Famous casualties: Dambusters headstones in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Bertram and Eliza Minchin; husband of Jessie Kate Minchin, of Bedford.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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