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Major GEORGE ROBERT LEASON

Service Number: 50443
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 July 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL

III. B. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Lavinia Leason; husband of Joan Leason, of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription "A VERRAY PARFIT GENTIL KNIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 521
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