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Private GWILYM JOHN LEYSHON

Service Number: 189
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Guards

2nd Coy. 1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XI. B. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Ann Leyshon, of Bynea, nr. Llanelly.
  • Personal Inscription A MAN'S HEART DEVISETH HIS WAY BUT THE LORD DIRECTETH HIS STEPS
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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