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Lance Corporal JAMES BURNESS

Service Number: 9989
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 December 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXXI. E. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Jessie Burness, of 194, Duke St., Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD TO THOSE WHO LOVED HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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