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Private LEO HANSON HAMILTON

Service Number: 18629
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE

Neuville-Vitasse Mill Cem. Mem., Panel 4.

France

Famous casualties: headstone of Lieut. The Hon V.S.T. Harmsworth in Ancre British Cemetery, France. He was the son of Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. His brother Captain The Hon. Harold A. V. St. George Harmsworth also fell.

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Hamilton, of 34, Foundry St., Bury, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY R.I.P. FROM HIS LOVING MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 747
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