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Drummer JOHN A. GILLESPIE

Service Number: 240143
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. C. 79.

France

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD Amendement 202309 WOFFINDALE, N

Photographer: FRANCK MICHEL

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Corps School
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Janet Bell Gillespie, of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3548
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