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Captain MARK LESLIE PILKINGTON

Service Number: 76537
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Life Guards

Date of Death

Died 18 November 1942

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

10. H. 3.

Libya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Hubert Carlisle Pilkington, and of Ruth Honor Pilkington, of Little Offley, Hertfordshire; husband of Susan Violet Pilkington.
  • Personal Inscription "DAY SHALL CLASP HIM WITH STRONG HANDS, AND NIGHT SHALL FOLD HIM IN SOFT WINGS"
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Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1393
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