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Second Engineman ALEXANDER HARKESS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Fishing Fleet

Fishing Vessel. S.S. Bellevue (Granton).

Date of Death

Died 21 February 1942

Age 51 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PRESTONPANS NEW CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 109.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Isabella Flockhart Harkess; husband of Elizabeth Peden Harkess, of Cockenzie.
  • Personal Inscription "THY WILL BE DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

PRESTONPANS NEW CEMETERY
East Lothian United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 28
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