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Sergeant JAMES STEWART LEATHER

Service Number: 655486
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 25 June 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot E. Row 1. Grave 6.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Florence Ann Leather, of Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription THEY RAISED ALOFT THE LAMP OF HOPE IN FREEDOM'S DARKEST HOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Friesland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 71
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