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Lieutenant Colonel JAMES ROBERT MACALPINE DOWNIE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 March 1918

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAM BRITISH CEMETERY, MUILLE-VILLETTE

I. E. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of W. Macalpine Leny of Dalswinton; husband of Ethel Blakiston Houston Macalpine Downie, of Orangefield, Co. Down.
  • Personal Inscription TILL THE DAY DAWNS
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Buried or commemorated at

HAM BRITISH CEMETERY, MUILLE-VILLETTE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 486
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