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Private HUGH STANLEY GIRVAN

Service Number: 12534
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 November 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

XIII. M. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jane Girvan, of Ancrum, Roxburghshire, and the late James Girvan.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3143
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