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Lieutenant REX JOHN WHISTLER

Service Number: 131651
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Guards

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY

III. F. 22.

France

Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, France: grave of artist Rex Whistler, photographed by Max Dutton, June 2019

Photographer: Max Dutton

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Helen Frances Mary Whistler, of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. Noted painter, illustrator and designer.
  • Personal Inscription "THEY SHALL BE MINE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, IN THAT DAY WHEN I MAKE UP MY JEWELS"
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Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2175
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