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Trooper THOMAS HEYS LEIGH

Service Number: 14416296
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1945

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WALSHAW (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD

Vault 31.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Holt Leigh and Dorothy Leigh, of Elton, Bury.
  • Personal Inscription "WHOM THE GODS LOVE DIE YOUNG"
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Buried or commemorated at

WALSHAW (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 5
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