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Gunner JOHN LEIGHTON

Service Number: 267086
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

65th Howitzer Bty.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE

Plot 1 Row D. Grave 14.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David and Jane Leighton, of Park Gardens, Pitlochry, Perthshire.
  • Personal Inscription FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
Nord France
Number of casualties: 442
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