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Corporal JOHN WILSON

Service Number: 671295
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

380th Bty. 158th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 19 November 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

II. E. 20.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Kenneth Wilson, of Edinburgh, and the late Helen Wilson; husband of Margaret Livingston Wilson, of 5, Murieston Crescent, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription CHRIST SHALL CLASP THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1439
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