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Lieutenant RICHARD ARTHUR LEAR

Service Number: 264647
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

IX. G. 2.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Oscar Syred Lear and Alice Amy Lear, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription HOW BRIGHT THOSE GLORIOUS SPIRITS SHINE
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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