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Private RUSSELL TOM BLIGHT

Service Number: 115843
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1918

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHAUNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION

Sp. Mem. 1. C. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Blight, of Plymouth; husband of Dorothy Leigh Blight, of 3631 Dewdney Ave., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

CHAUNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 1008
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