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Corporal GEORGE EDWARD LITTLE SPEIGHT

Service Number: 4459737
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

III. C. 41.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Speight, of Gateshead, Co. Durham; husband of Margaret Elizabeth Speight, of Gateshead.
  • Personal Inscription TO LOVE AND BE LOVED TO HAVE, THEN LOSE, THAT LOVE IS LIFE'S GREATEST PAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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