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Major RICHARD JAMES CHARLES STANTON

Service Number: 85605
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The King's Regiment (Liverpool)

8th (Irish) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 March 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

II. E. 2.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Deirdre Clare Stanton, of Jersey, Channel Islands.
  • Personal Inscription THE BRAVEST ARE THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT LIES BEFORE THEM AND GO OUT TO MEET IT
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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