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Lieutenant PETER JOHN MANTON

Service Number: 293715
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

2nd The Northamptonshire Yeomanry.

Date of Death

Died 04 August 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXV. F. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of John McLellan Manton and Jessie Manton, of Pavenham, Bedfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription A SPLENDID COMRADE WHO DIED THAT ENGLAND MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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