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Private JOHN LEANEY

Service Number: SD/1392
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY WOOD CEMETERY (LANCASHIRE DUMP), MESNIL-MARTINSART

I. M. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ruth Leaney, of Plumpton, Sussex; husband of Mrs. N. H. Levett (formerly Leaney), of Married Quarters, The Barracks, Chichester.
  • Personal Inscription R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY WOOD CEMETERY (LANCASHIRE DUMP), MESNIL-MARTINSART
Somme France
Number of casualties: 380
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