LEARY, JAMES
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Fusilier
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18/09/1944
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Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 4th Bn.
II. B. 19.
James Leary was born May 23rd 1915. Before the war he worked as a coal miner and later a painter and decorator. During the war he served as a despatch rider.
Initially buried at Valkenswaard.
From the service records of James Leary, the following account can be reconstructed.
James Leary was born on 23 May 1915 in Tildesley, Lancashire. In civilian life he worked as a painter and decorator. He enlisted in the British Army on 11 May 1940 and joined the Lancashire Fusiliers. On 23 June 1940 he was transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers.
James Leary was not married.
He embarked for service in North West Europe on 19 June 1944.
According to his service records, he was 5 feet 2⅝ inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes.
James Leary was killed in action on 18 September 1944.
James Leary sitting in the front row, wearing an eye patch.