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Driver JOHN ATHERTON

Service Number: 10691019
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

24th Tank Bde. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 09 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Atherton, and of Elizabeth Atherton, of Golborne, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY THE WINDS OF HEAVEN BLOW GENTLY OVER THIS SWEET AND SACRED SPOT
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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