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Private LESLIE BASNETT

Service Number: 3713008
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MALBORK COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY

6. B. 4.

Poland

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur William and Mary Basnett, of Liverpool. His brothers, Arthur William and Robert Campbell Basnett, also died in service.
  • Personal Inscription HIS BROTHERS ARTHUR & ROBERT, DIED AS PRISONERS OF WAR. "WE'LL MEET AGAIN" MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

MALBORK COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY
Poland
Number of casualties: 246
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