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Sapper R S GEMMELL

Service Number: 121900
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

253rd Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 02 August 1917

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XVII. E. 5.

Belgium

Site visit 17th October 2024. Headstone

Photographer: Adam Kelsall

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elizabeth B. Gemmell, of 61, Spring Field Terrace, Dunblane, Perthshire.
  • Personal Inscription FONDLY REMEMBERED BY FATHER, MOTHER SISTERS & BROTHERS WIFE & SON
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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