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Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE WILLIAM FREDRIC LEICESTER

Service Number: 8680
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cheshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 25 February 1944

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHESTER (BLACON) CEMETERY

Sec. H. Grave 53.

United Kingdom

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. R.A.F. Regt. Royal Air Force
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Frederic and Mary Lilian Leicester; husband of Katharine Anne Leicester, of Camberley, Surrey.
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Buried or commemorated at

CHESTER (BLACON) CEMETERY
Cheshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 581
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