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Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS VINCENT FORD

Service Number: 1168841
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

86 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SOLA CHURCHYARD

British Plot. E. 5.

Norway

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Lionel Joyce and Dorothy Margaret Coleridge Ford; husband of Mabel Mary Emily Ford, of Weston, Southampton.
  • Personal Inscription ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE
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Buried or commemorated at

SOLA CHURCHYARD
Norway
Number of casualties: 45
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