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Corporal JOHN VERNON EYRE

Service Number: 13015411
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

Date of Death

Died 25 February 1945

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARNSLEY (MONK BRETTON) CEMETERY

Sec. E. Grave 161.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Annie Eyre; husband of Ada Eyre, of Cundy Cross, Barnsley.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED TO KEEP US SAFE
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Buried or commemorated at

BARNSLEY (MONK BRETTON) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 22
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