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Corporal RAYMOND LEIGH

Service Number: 648732
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BLACKBURN CEMETERY

Sec. H. Nonconformist. Grave 555.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Tom and Florance Leigh, of Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS. "HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY"
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Buried or commemorated at

BLACKBURN CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 268
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