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Lieutenant GERALD LESLIE BLENKEY

Service Number: 203132
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 July 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. E. 12.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mathew and Clarice Blenkey, of Whitby, Yorkshire; husband of Jane Humphrey Blenkey, of Whitby.
  • Personal Inscription "OUR SOUL WITHSTANDS THE TERROR AND HAS ITS QUIET HONOUR"
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Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1067
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