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Private WILLIAM THOMSON

Service Number: 17518
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 November 1918

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

C. 263.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Janet Thomson, of 27, High St., Burntisland, Fifeshire.
  • Personal Inscription O SPIRIT FREED FROM EARTH REJOICE, THY WORK IS DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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