Private ALEXANDER LEIGHTON
Service Number: 14826807
                
                        
                        Regiment & Unit/Ship
                    
                        Durham Light Infantry
                        
                        Date of Death
                    
                        Died 17 January 1945
Age 18 years old
    - Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 10th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
 - Country of Service United Kingdom
 - Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Alice Leighton, of Annfield Plain.
 - Personal Inscription NO VERSE CAN SAY NO WEALTH REPAY ALL WE LOST THAT SAD DAY. EVER REMEMBERED
 

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