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Sergeant ROBERT GILCHRIST NELSON

Service Number: 1371110
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

9 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 06 September 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY

8. K. 2.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gavin Hope Nelson and Elizabeth Lees Nelson, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription "IN THE SWEET BY AND BY WE SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL SHORE" GOD IS LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Bayern Germany
Number of casualties: 2970
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