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Rifleman JOHN LENIHAN

Service Number: 6409951
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Ulster Rifles

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

VIII. E. 9.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cornelius and Elizabeth Lenihan; husband of Margarete E. Lenihan, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY WIFE AND CHILD, AUNTY AND FRIENDS. MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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