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Private LEONARD VENTRESS

Service Number: 4696974
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

30th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NORTH ORMESBY CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 793.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Elizabeth Ventress, of North Ormesby, Middlesbrough; husband of Mary Ross Ventress, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

NORTH ORMESBY CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 43
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