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Corporal JOSEPH EDWARD LEANING

Service Number: 4802469
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE

V. F. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Parmenas and Rose Ann Leaning; husband of Dorothy Rosemarie Leaning, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOD EASED YOUR PAIN AND GAVE YOU REST BUT WE HAVE LOST ONE OF THE BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 988
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