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Captain DAVID VICKERY LEIGHTON

Service Number: 140398
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

371 Bty., 98 (The Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 23 January 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

VI, J, 7.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Capt. John Leighton and Martha Jane Leighton, of Waterloo, Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS." OURS THE SORROW HIS THE EVERLASTING GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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