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Private ALEXANDER FORBES

Service Number: 40174
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1

I. F. 30.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Forbes, of 4, Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh; husband of Mary Lyon, of 5, Mackenzie Place, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription LATE 9TH ROYAL SCOTS DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF MOLLY LYON EDINBURGH
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Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2434
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