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Lieutenant JOHN EDGCOMBE VENNING

Service Number: 121818
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

III. K. 35.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Margaret Beatrice Venning, of Shenley, Hertfordshire; husband of Pamela Aileen Venning. B.A. (Oxon.).
  • Personal Inscription TRAJICIT ET FATI LITORA MAGNUS AMOR
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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