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Corporal JOHN SHAW NEILSON

Service Number: 2575991
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1947

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATHCART CEMETERY

Compt. 2.B. Linn Extn. Grave 826.

United Kingdom

Photos of cemeteries and churchyards in Scotland, taken in 2009 by Iain Anderson, RS and shared on CD: East Renfrewshire

Photographer: Iain Anderson

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Janet Lennoy Neilson, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LEAVE IS NOT TO DIE. "UNTIL WE MEET"
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Buried or commemorated at

CATHCART CEMETERY
Renfrewshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 243
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