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Gunner LEONARD PERCY APPLETON

Service Number: 956260
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

147 (The Essex Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Fredrick and Ann Elizabeth Appleton, of Bocking, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription GOD GIVETH, GOD TAKETH AWAY; STILL OURS IN LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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