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Private WILLIAM SPENCE KERR

Service Number: 266003
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL BRITISH CEMETERY

III. L. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Jessie Kerr, of Keith, Banffshire. Enlisted 6th Dec., 1914.
  • Personal Inscription ON HIS SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY HOLY MARY PRAY FOR HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

MAROEUIL BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 574
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