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Private W GIFFEN

Service Number: 8617
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

2nd/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. Q. 20A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Agnes and the late John Giffen, of Beith, Ayrshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE WAS WILLING
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Buried or commemorated at

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