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Lieutenant ROBERT QUILTER GILSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Suffolk Regiment

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT

I. R. 28.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Cary Gilson and Emily Annie Gilson, of Canterbury House, Marston Green, near Birmingham. Born at Harrow-on-the-Hill. Classical Exhibitioner of Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • Personal Inscription NEC PROPTER VITAM VIVENDI PERDERE CAUSAS
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Buried or commemorated at

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 713
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