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Driver WILLIAM WATSON GURNEY

Service Number: MT/502
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 October 1916

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAVETA MILITARY CEMETERY

II. A. 1.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of William Watson Gurney and Anne Gurney; husband of Agnes Longley Gurney, of 53, Leyds St., Johannesburg. Born at Liverpool, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

TAVETA MILITARY CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 199
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