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Private J LEIGHTON

Service Number: 30038
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 May 1916

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AMARA WAR CEMETERY

XX. E. 9.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Eleanor Leighton, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Mary J. Stanley (formerly Leighton), of 1, Brick Row, Worsborough Common, Barnsley.
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Buried or commemorated at

AMARA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 4633
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