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Sapper WILLIAM ROBERTSON MELVIN

Service Number: 93218
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

218th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 06 May 1916

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

A. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Margaret Melvin; husband of Helena McGouran Melvin, of 907, Maryhill Rd., Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 33
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