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Corporal LEONARD WILLIAM KIRBY

Service Number: 6009303
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1943

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY

XVII. B. 13.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Fredrick Leonard and Sarah Matilda Kirby; husband of Margery Florence Kirby, of St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription ALL HE HAD HOPED FOR, ALL HE HAD, HE GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND: HIMSELF HE COULD NOT SAVE
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