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Gunner DAVID RITCHIE

Service Number: 307090
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 04 April 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

I. M. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Eldest son of David and Agnes Ritchie, of 10, Forbes St., Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID ON DUTY'S ALTAR THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 549
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