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Private R JESS

Service Number: 2298
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Ayrshire Yeomanry

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

N. 30.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Jess, of High Smithston Cottages, Maybole, Ayrshire.
  • Personal Inscription ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1104
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