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Lance Corporal LESLIE BRIGGS

Service Number: 557711
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

Nottinghamshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 15 January 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 6. A. 5-7.

Libya

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Stepson of Eliza Emma Pakin, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription YOUNG AND BRAVE HE MET HIS FATE O LORD, REWARD HIM AT THY HEAVENLY GATE
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Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1393
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