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Trooper GEORGE LEONARD HORTON

Service Number: 7920351
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

VI. B. 25.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George William and Mabel Horton; husband of Vera Horton, of Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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