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Major MURRAY BALFOUR REEKIE

Service Number: 237705
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

2. H. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jared and Elizabeth Amelia Reekie; husband of Margaret Elizabeth Lilian Reekie, of East Finchley, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription THANK YOU, DARLING FOR SO MUCH HAPPINESS. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. MARGARET
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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