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Private LEONARD RADCLIFFE BRITTAIN

Service Number: 7648
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE

I. A. 67.

France

Stone is clean and in good condition , area to be tidied up when ground is dryer.

Photographer: John Rennie

Headstone clean and tidy.

Photographer: John Rennie

Cleaned and area tidied.

Photographer: John Rennie

Headstone clean and tidy.

Photographer: John Rennie

Headstone clean and tidy. Both on same headstone.

Photographer: John Rennie

Stone is clean and in good condition , area to be tidied up when ground is dryer.

Photographer: John Rennie

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard and Edith Brittain, of Eccles, nr. Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription HE LOVED ENGLAND WELL ENOUGH TO DIE FOR HER
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Buried or commemorated at

LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 896
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