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Corporal ALEXANDER SIME

Service Number: 79061
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

179th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 July 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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I. A. 32.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Brother of James Sime, of 247, Wellesley Rd., Methil, Fifeshire.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES FOND MEMORY CLINGS
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Somme France
Number of casualties: 888
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