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Private WILLIAM OVENS THOMSON

Service Number: M2/113940
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Service Corps

Mechanical Transport

Date of Death

Died 04 July 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERICOURT-L'ABBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. C. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 64th Field Amb. Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thomson, of 26, Caledonian Crescent, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

MERICOURT-L'ABBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 422
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