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Private LEONARD SHARPLES ACTON

Service Number: 4134069
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cheshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 November 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

19. E. 1.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard Wade Acton and Emily Acton, of Stockport, Cheshire; husband of Ethel Acton, of Heaton Chapel, Stockport.
  • Personal Inscription LIFE'S DUTY NOBLY DONE

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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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