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Second Lieutenant ELLIOTT DOUGLASS TURNER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

VII. F. 18.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Rebecca J. Turner, of Broad Lea, Kilmarnock, and the late Thomas Turner. Enlisted in 1914. Wounded on the Somme 1916; Gazetted 1917. Also served in Palestine.
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1951
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