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Captain WALTER STANLEY GIMSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

IV. B. 48.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 61st T.M. Bty
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of William Gimson, and Martha Gimson, of Leicester; husband of Isabel Beatrice Gimson, of 9, Forest Rd., Loughborough.
  • Personal Inscription TILL HE COME
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Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1645
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