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Private WILLIAM JAMES CRANSTONE

Service Number: S/12255
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 December 1915

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

II. D. 23.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Priscilla Cranstone, of Canonbury, London; husband of Marie Catherine Cranstone, of Stamford Hill, London. Leather Merchant.
  • Personal Inscription DO THY DUTY THAT IS BEST LEAVE UNTO THY LORD THE REST LONGFELLOW
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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