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Trooper LESLIE WILLIAM WHITAKER

Service Number: 4979705
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

27th Lancers

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY

VII, F, 12.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Nellie Whitaker; husband of Louisa Whitaker, of Kilburn, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD WHILE HIS MEMORY LIVES
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Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 775
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