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Corporal JOHN EDWARD EWART HANSON

Service Number: 14440347
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 February 1945

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

12. G. 4.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lincoln Ewart Hanson and Mary Edenia Hanson, of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "SPARKLING IN THE GLEAM OF DAY"
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Buried or commemorated at

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