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Leading Aircraftman LESLIE CLOSE

Service Number: 548536
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

51 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 19 March 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KIEL WAR CEMETERY

3. B. 20.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Seymour Close and Barbara Close, of Burnhope, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription "HERE RESTS HIS HEAD UPON THE LAP OF EARTH A YOUTH TO FORTUNE AND TO FAME UNKNOWN"
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Buried or commemorated at

KIEL WAR CEMETERY
Schleswig-Holstein Germany
Number of casualties: 993
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