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Lance Corporal ROBERT JAMES BIRNIE

Service Number: 62046
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

130th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

XIII. D. 10.

Iraq

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 1st/4th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of F. Hughes (formerly Birnie), of Nazarbad Rd., Mysore, India, and the late John Birnie. Born at Aberdeen.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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