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Private DUNCAN GILLESPIE

Service Number: 199169
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

28th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 December 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERSIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. C. 24.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Angus and Esther Gillespie, of Slate River Valley, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription HE WEARS A TRUER CROWN THAN ANY WREATH THAT MAN CAN WEAVE HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

HERSIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 231
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