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Sergeant LESLIE HOLMES BLANKSBY

Service Number: 3833
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Tunnelling Corps

2nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 06 March 1917

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. B. 17.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth Irvine Blanksby; husband of Beatrice Blanksby, of "Ithaca," Malvern Avenue, Chatswood, New South Wales. Born Woolongong, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription FOR GOD AND RIGHT AND LIBERTY SUCH DEATH IS IMMORTALITY
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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