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Lieutenant ROLAND AUBREY LEIGHTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Worcestershire Regiment

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 December 1915

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LOUVENCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row B. Grave 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Marie Connor Leighton. Postmaster of Merton College, Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription GOODNIGHT, THOUGH LIFE AND ALL TAKE FLIGHT, NEVER GOOD-BYE.
  • N.B. Fiance of Vera Brittain - immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.
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Buried or commemorated at

LOUVENCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 230
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