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Corporal JOSEPH LEES

Service Number: 27901
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

18th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

E. 63.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Peter and Margaret Lees, of Brankin, Kirkliston, West Lothian.
  • Personal Inscription THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD RESTS UPON HIM WE WILL REMEMBER THY LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 318
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