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Private LIONEL EDMUND WALTER BLANCHARD

Service Number: 5440350
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 July 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

VI. E. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Blanchard, and of Florence Lillian Blanchard, of Stoke, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription TO HAVE YOU IN THE SAME OLD WAY IS OUR ONLY WISH. MUM, DAD, BROTHERS AND SISTER
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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