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Sergeant JOHN WATSON EMSLIE

Service Number: 80023
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

"B" Coy. 31st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 November 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SPOILBANK CEMETERY

I. S. 12.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Major John Emslie and Jane Grant Emslie (nee Watson), of Migvie Grange, Belvedere, Alberta. Born at Inverness, Scotland.
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Buried or commemorated at

SPOILBANK CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 520
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