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Private JAMES ALEXANDER LAWTON

Service Number: 17329
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

27th

Date of Death

Died 27 February 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

VI. E. 17.

Italy

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jessie Henderson Lawton, of Bluff, Southland, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 4277
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