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Private RALPH LEIGHTLEY

Service Number: 4273833
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

2. J. 19.

Libya

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Adam and Jane Leightley, of Morpeth, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription ART THOU WEARY? ART THOU SORE DISTRESSED? COME UNTO ME, SAITH ONE, AND COMING, BE AT REST. AMEN
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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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