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Corporal WILLIAM GORDON

Service Number: 1255
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

5th Bn

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

P. 37.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late William and Margaret Gordon. Of Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription I THANK GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1313
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