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Trooper LEONARD JAMES OVERBURY

Service Number: 7896254
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

Date of Death

Died 14 December 1941

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

11. H. 24.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard Joseph and Louise Blanche Overbury, of Whitminster, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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