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Private GEORGE SPEED

Service Number: 3538
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

3rd/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET

I. J. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Native of Salford. Son of Jabez Pearson Speed and Sarah Speed, of 24, Beckenham Rd., Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLE SACRIFICE HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET
Somme France
Number of casualties: 703
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