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Sapper WILLIAM BLACK JACK THOMSON

Service Number: 79413
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

176th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1915

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY

I. F. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jessie Thomson, of Blackcot Gardens, Dalkeith, Midlothian. Native of Newton Grange, Midlothian.
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Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 942
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