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Corporal WILLIAM HOUSTON

Service Number: 15857
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

"D" Coy. 17th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 January 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

C. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Logan Houston, of Glenlogan, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE GRUDGED HIM SAIR TO THE LAND O' THE LEAL
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Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 613
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