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Sapper LORRAINE ANTHONY BESLEY

Service Number: 1948786
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEEDS (HAREHILLS) CEMETERY

Sec. G. Coll. grave 87.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Kathleen Besley, of Red Hazel, Port Antonio, Jamaica.
  • Personal Inscription WE CANNOT, LORD, THY PURPOSE SEE BUT ALL IS WELL THAT IS DONE BY THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

LEEDS (HAREHILLS) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 329
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