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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM HOLDEN

Service Number: 231628
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

248th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 February 1919

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MURMANSK NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

B. 13.

Russian Federation (North)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Atherton and Alice Holden; husband of Elizabeth Lund Holden, of 2, Aldwych Place, Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription HE FELL ON SLEEP, TILL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

MURMANSK NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Russian Federation (North)
Number of casualties: 83
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