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Captain JOHN HORNSBY MAX

Service Number: 137383
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. H. 20.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 6th Airborne Div.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David John and Mary Elizabeth Max, of Old Stratford; Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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