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Private D NELSON

Service Number: 24572
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

6th/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 April 1918

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

X. D. 9.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson, of Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow; husband of Jessie Lang Nelson, of 40, Woddrop St., Dalmarnock, Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription FONDLY LOVED AND SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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