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Serjeant JOHN JAMES WILSON

Service Number: 12855
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 February 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. D. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Margaret Wilson, of Whitehaven, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW, BUT IN PRIDE, AND MAY YOU LIVE AS NOBLY AS HE DIED.
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Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 320
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