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Lieutenant JOHN MICHAEL PRESKEY LEY

Service Number: 304684
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

1st

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

II. E. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Edward Victor and Bertha Lacey Ley, of Nottingham.
  • Personal Inscription OUR BELOVED ONLY SON AND BROTHER TO MEMORY MOST DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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