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Bombardier JAMES NEILSON

Service Number: X/56
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Heavy Artillery

125th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAILLY-AU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY

I. C. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of James and Mary Ann Neilson, of Divers House, South Dock, Sunderland; husband of the late Ina Neilson (nee Owen), of Knights, Transvaal, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription BELOVED HUSBAND OF THE LATE INA NEILSON AND SON OF J. AND M. NEILSON
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