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Private A BLAIR

Service Number: S/14829
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT CEMETERY

VII. H. 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Alexander and Jane Blair, of Aberlady, Edinburgh; husband of Jessie Blair, of 1W, Montgomery Place, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription OH FOR A TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND & A VOICE THAT IS STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 11978
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