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Private JOHN CUMMING

Service Number: 7881
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE

II. C. 29.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. "D" Coy. 5th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Only son of John Cumming and Margaret Steele Hamilton Cumming, of Blairs Orchard, Overtown, Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2973
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