Photo: Dorothy Hall
14826807 Private
A. Leighton
The Durham Light Infantry
17th January 1945 Age 18
No Verse Can Say
No Wealth Repay
All We Lost That Sad Day
Ever Remembered
Son of Benjamin and Alice Leighton, of Annfield Plain.
Private Leighton was drowned in a tragic boating accident at Guyzance.
Alexander Leighton is remembered at Annfield Plain on A38.01, at Harelaw on H144.01, at Guyzance on G25.01.01 and G25.02 and in the The DLI Book of Remembrance page 3
