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Captain JOHN SHEPARD PAYNE

Service Number: 198991
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANGOON WAR CEMETERY

1. E. 12.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney Henry and Alice Emma Payne, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription TILL WE MEET. "WHERE OUR TRASURE IS THERE SHALL OUR HEARTS BE ALSO"-MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

RANGOON WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 1426
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