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Lieutenant LESLIE JOHN BOSWOOD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

No. 1 Observer School of Aerial Gunnery

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY

M. 667.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stephen John Tibbles Boswood and Kate Mary Boswood, of 44, Brownlow Rd., Bowes Park, London. Commissioned from Artist's Rifles, in which he enlisted in 1914.
  • Personal Inscription JUST THE BRAVE LIFE SPENT WITH LOVE OF COUNTRY FOR ITS SACRAMENT
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Buried or commemorated at

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
Kent United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 699
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