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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Leighton George
|Army number=4277789
|Rank=Fusilier
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|Date of birth=Date not yet known.
|Age=32
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  DIED 6/6/1943 at Changayra, Burma, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=X Company.
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|Wounded=
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED from Cholera 6/6/1943.
|Home address=Father lived at 7, Barker Street, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne.  No details available of initial interment.
}}