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Major JAMES DOUGLAS LEITCH MELROSE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

29th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 25 April 1918

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ABEELE AERODROME MILITARY CEMETERY

I. E. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Melrose, of Goshen Bank, Kelso, Roxburghshire; husband of Jessie Macpherson Melrose, of 5, Dean Terrace, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

ABEELE AERODROME MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 104
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