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Private JOSEPH LEYLAND

Service Number: 931431
Regiment & Unit/Ship

2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 02 June 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY, THELUS

III. C. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Leyland, of Goose Green, Wigan, England; husband of Alice Leyland, of Coal Creek, British Columbia.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT TO MEMORY DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY, THELUS
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 508
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