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Rifleman DAVID GILLESPIE

Service Number: 7449
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 April 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

A. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Gillespie, of Gartcosh, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARER TO MEMORY THAN WORDS CAN TELL ARE THOUGHTS OF HIM WE LOVED SO WELL
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 443
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