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Colour Serjeant WILLIAM THOMSON

Service Number: 2870791
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

5/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 November 1942

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

III. H. 16.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jessie Thomson, of Aberdeen; husband of Jane Ross Thomson, of Aberdeen.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE; BUT THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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