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Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM HUBERT LEETE

Service Number: 21507
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 29 November 1944

Age 49 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHESTER (BLACON) CEMETERY

Sec. H. Grave 70.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Cdg. 53 (5th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regt. Royal Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross, Territorial Decoration
  • Additional Info Son of William Septimus and Emily Mary Phyllis Leete, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Mary Constance Leete, of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne. His son Peter Hubert also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription THE HUSBAND OF MARY CONSTANCE LEETE. THEIR SON, PETER HUBERT WAS PRESUMED LOST AT SEA 24TH FEBRUARY 1942 AGE 19
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