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Trooper NINIAN COCKBURN ROBERTS

Service Number: 7952592
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"C" Sqn. Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA

VII. E. 13.

Algeria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Maurice Roberts, and of Margaret Roberts (nee Cockburn), of Newton Grange, Midlothian.
  • Personal Inscription FAR DISTANT FAR DISTANT LIES SCOTLAND THE BRAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA
Algeria
Number of casualties: 888
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