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Lance Corporal ALEXANDER GIBBON STRACHAN

Service Number: 9584
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 October 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT CEMETERY

XXIX. C. 23.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander George and M. A. Strachan, of 41, A Block, Married Quarters, Strensall Camp. Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription "NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE" ISA. II. 4
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Buried or commemorated at

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