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Major ERIC HENRY GOODWIN LEGGETT

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

188th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 30 July 1916

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. A. 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Three times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Lt. Col. Frederick Octavius Leggett, (Late R.A.O.D.) and Maria Leggett, of High Grange, Hythe; husband of Mary Leggett, of Stonepitts, Ryde, Isle of Wight. One of three brothers who fell, and to whose memory the Chancel Screen and Memorial Cross in St. Martin's Church, Cheriton, are dedicated. See also, Alan Randall Aufrere and Wilfred Noel Legget.
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