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Marine LAURENCE JOHN YEARLEY

Service Number: PO/214492
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1942

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEWTON ABBOT CEMETERY

Gen. Sec. B. Grave 172.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward James Yearley and Emma Yearley; husband of Alice Florence Yearley, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVING HUSBAND TRUE AND KIND, A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND, WIFE ALICE
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Buried or commemorated at

NEWTON ABBOT CEMETERY
Devon United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 48
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