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John William Sinton (Willie)
 Born
About 1898
 Died
24 July 1920 in Iraq
 Buried
in Basra, Iraq
 Father
John Sinton
 
 Mother
Eliza Unknown (Sinton)
 
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GENERAL NOTES
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

Debt of Honour Register
In Memory of JOHN WILLIE SINTON, Private, 3512830, 2nd Bn., Manchester Regiment, who died on Saturday 24 July 1920. Age 22.

Additional Information: (46142). Son of the late John and Eliza Sinton.
Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 31 and 64
Location: The Basra Memorial was originally sited within Basra War Cemetery but in 1997 the Memorial was moved by presidential decree. The move, carried out by the authorities in Iraq, involved a considerable amount of manpower, transport costs and sheer engineering on their part, and the Memorial has been re-erected in its entirety. The Basra Memorial is now located 32 kilometres along the road to Nasiriyah, in the middle of what was a major battleground during the Gulf War.
Visiting Information: THE COMMISSION STRONGLY ADVISES THAT THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE SHOULD BE CONTACTED BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO VISIT IRAQ. Their details are as follows: Travel Advice Unit Consular Division Foreign and Commonwealth Office Old Admiralty Building London SW1A 2AF Tel: 0207 008 0232/0233 Fax: 0207 008 0164 Website: https://www.fco.gov.uk/ Opening Times: Monday to Friday 09.30 - 16.00

Historical Information: The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.
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