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John Halse J H Watkins, Private served with The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C., 8th Bn..
Service number: '14422129'. Date of death: 1944-06-06. Age: 19. Country: France.
Buried at Ranville War Cemetery, grave reference Coll. grave V. B. 1-22..
SON OF ARTHUR ERNEST AND AMY MARJORIE WATKINS, OF WENDENS AMBO, ESSEX.
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