Service Details
Name:
 LEIGHTON
Given Name:
 ALEXANDER
Initials:
 A
Service No:
 14518
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1918-04-17
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Date of Birth:
 1895-08-13
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Amy Kate Leighton, of Rosedale, Amalinda, Cape Province. A market gardener. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18. Commemoration stone in East London (Cambridge) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 15 - 16 and 16A.

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