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Major PETER STAPLETON BUXTON

Service Number: 25648
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

153 (The Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. B. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Geoffrey Buxton, and of Clare Buxton (nee Stapleton); husband of Julia V. Buxton, of Gainford, Co. Durham.
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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