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Private WILLIAM WILSON

Service Number: GS/12052
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)

Date of Death

Died 30 November 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXX. N. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Native of Camilty, Midlothian. Son of Stewart Wilson and Catherine Wilson, of Corston, Mid-Calder, Midlothian.
  • Personal Inscription IT IS SWEET AND GLORIOUS TO DIE FOR ONE'S COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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