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Private WILLIAM ROBERT GIFFORD

Service Number: 40086
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY

III. B. 15.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and May Gifford, of Edinburgh. Previously wounded in March.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN & IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 3615
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