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Sapper LEONARD GIBBS

Service Number: 14544175
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

232 Army Troops Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1944

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 9. Row 7. Grave 38.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Hilda May Choyce Gibbs, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
  • Personal Inscription ONCE, ONLY ONCE AND ONCE FOR ALL HIS PRECIOUS LIFE HE GAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 432
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