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Private GEORGE ESPEN NEILSON

Service Number: 21311
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

No. 4 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PONT-D'ACHELLES MILITARY CEMETERY, NIEPPE

I. E. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Jean Neilson, of Brown St., Auckland, and the late Charles Neilson; husband of Ada F. Neilson, of Paerata, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

PONT-D'ACHELLES MILITARY CEMETERY, NIEPPE
Nord France
Number of casualties: 330
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