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Sapper ANDREW LANG NELSON

Service Number: 3051716
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

26 Assault Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY

7. A. 9.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Russell Nelson and Sarah Lang Nelson, of Harthill, Lanarkshire; husband of Jessie Tait Nelson, of Harthill.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST
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Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1317
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