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Acting Bombardier DAVID DOWNIE

Service Number: 655224
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

77th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 10 November 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. G. 20A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of McEwan and Isabella Downie, of Sunnyside Nursery, Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Native of Loch Doon, Dalmellington, Ayrshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS WAR IS O'ER HIS SUN IS SET BUT WE WHO LOVED HIM CAN NEVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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