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Private ALEXANDER SKINNER

Service Number: 266178
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HIGHLAND CEMETERY, ROCLINCOURT

I. A. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Mary Skinner, of Broombrae, Wartle, Aberdeenshire. Born at New Deer, Maud, Aberdeenshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

HIGHLAND CEMETERY, ROCLINCOURT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 322
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