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Casualty Information

14893399

Private

JOHN

PORTEOUS

Service Number

Age

Date of death

14893399

20

Saturday, December 06, 1947

Company:

Researching

Parents lived in Gretna at the time of his death.

War Service details:

Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No). 

General Service Corps

1st Bttn KOSB location on day of death (According to War Diary)

Palestine

John Linton Porteous was born on the 10th December 1926 in Kilpatrick-Fleming, Dumfries and Galloway.


He died 4 days before his 21st birthday and a week before he was due to be demobbed from the Army.

Daily Record, December 9th, 1947.
Daily Record, December 9th, 1947.

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In Memorium

14893399

Memorial

RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY

11. B. 12.

Photo Credits:

Find a Grave - Leonid Mendelzon

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