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Trooper JOHN LESLIE SHIELDS

Service Number: 7942212
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

2nd

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

IV, A, 18.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Florence Shields, of Craghead, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription PEACEFULLY SLEEPING FREE FROM PAIN IN GOD'S OWN TIME WE SHALL MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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