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Private ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

Service Number: 14826807
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 17 January 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STANLEY (HARELAW) CEMETERY

Sec. 18. Grave 51.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 10th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Alice Leighton, of Annfield Plain.
  • Personal Inscription NO VERSE CAN SAY NO WEALTH REPAY ALL WE LOST THAT SAD DAY. EVER REMEMBERED
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