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Guardsman ALEX LESLIE JAYES

Service Number: 2721386
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Irish Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. F. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold William and Elisabeth Jayes, of Leicester; husband of Florence Winifred Jayes, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription AT HIS COUNTRY'S CALL AND WITH A VALIANT HEART HE LEFT THOSE HE LOVED AND GAVE HIS ALL
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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