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Private A LEIGHTON

Service Number: 12253
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 November 1918

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NESTON CEMETERY

I. D. 13.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin Leighton and the late Catherine Leighton; husband of Rebecca Leighton, of 13, New St., Colliery, Neston.
  • Personal Inscription JESU LOVER OF MY SOUL LET ME TO THY BOSOM FLY
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Buried or commemorated at

NESTON CEMETERY
Cheshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 17
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