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Second Lieutenant ERNEST RICHARD LEARY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. PIERRE CEMETERY, AMIENS

V. B. 6.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Machine Gun Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Florence Lucy Leary, of Palmerston North, New Zealand. Also served as Cpl., N.Z.E.F. (Samoa) 1914-15.
  • Personal Inscription FESTIVUS CECIDIT
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. PIERRE CEMETERY, AMIENS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 758
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