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Pte John Richard Frederick Gilkes- Gravestone

Brouay War Cemetery, France Private, 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
He died on 16 July 1944 shortly after the D Day invasion of Normandy and during the Battle for Caen; age 19
He is buried in Brouay War Cemetery, Normandy
He was the son of Richard & Lilian R Gilkes of Deddington