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Sergeant JOHN WILLIAM LEASON

Service Number: 999653
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

207 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 13 October 1941

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESSEN (HORENDONK) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Coll. grave.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Susan Leason; husband of Enid Leason, of Hull.
  • Personal Inscription "FOR HIM THE GATES ARE OPEN AND HEAVEN'S BUGLES BLOW" HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

ESSEN (HORENDONK) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 6
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