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Corporal LAURENCE CROSSLEY ASHBY

Service Number: 6296206
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 December 1941

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

Joint grave 8. B. 28-29.

Libya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard Frederick and Florence Agnes Ashby, of Hillside, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Personal Inscription THROUGH DEEP SORROW AND HIS SUPREME SACRIFICE SHALL DAWN THE FREEDOM OF MANKIND
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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