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Lieutenant JOHN HENRY DRINKWATER

Service Number: OS/656
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Indian Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 13 July 1945

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

8. C. 7.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service Indian
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Catherine Drinkwater, of Howdon, Wallsend, Northumberland; husband of Muriel May Drinkwater.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE SHELTER OF THY SACRED HEART, SWEET JESUS, MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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