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Rifleman CHARLES GILLESPIE

Service Number: 42404
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Panel 40.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Only son of Charles and Harriet Gillespie, of 3, Promontory Terrace, Whitley Bay, Northumberland; husband of the late Helen M. M. Gillespie. Enlisted in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Insurance Clerk in the Liverpool London and Globe Office, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for 20 years.
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