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Private JAMES INKSTER

Service Number: S/11487
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 April 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

III. G. 31.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Eliza Inkster, of Ashgrove, Lerwick, Shetland.
  • Personal Inscription HE PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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