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Private LESLIE EDWARD BIRSE

Service Number: 5782429
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Norfolk Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY

Row J. 14.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew and Hilda Birse; husband of Violet Victoria Birse, of Merton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGHTS DRIFT BACK TO BYGONE DAYS LIFE MOVES ON BUT MEMORY STAYS
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 224
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