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Sergeant JOHN ALFRED LEANING

Service Number: A/35337
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Artillery

43 Bty., 12 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 24 April 1945

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI. D. 8.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Husband of Isabelle Leaning, of Guelph, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription "THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY"
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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