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Private ROBERT LEIGHTON

Service Number: 202758
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Staffordshire Regiment

"A" Coy. 1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 November 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

III. A. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Amelia Leighton, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Elizabeth Jane Leighton, of 249, Parker St., Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription HE DID HIS DUTY
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