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Major HERBERT SELWYN ASTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 July 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAESTRE MILITARY CEMETERY

I. D. 8.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Bn. Machine Gun Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Ellen and the late Arthur Robert Aston, of Ettrickdale, Davenport Park, Stockport, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

CAESTRE MILITARY CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 195
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