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Rifleman ALEXANDER DEAN THOMSON

Service Number: 42723
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Rifle Brigade

3rd Bn. 3rd

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William James and Margaret Thomson, of Otautau, Invercargill.
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MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 828
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