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Gunner ROY WILLIAM LEIGHTON

Service Number: F/95096
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Artillery

12 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 11 October 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VIII. G. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Stephen Graham Leighton and Grace Maud Leighton, of Wentworth Creek, Hants Co., Nova Scotia.
  • Personal Inscription DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
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Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1158
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