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Second Lieutenant JAMES REID NELSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 April 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

II. C. 31.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. W. Nelson, of 2, Garland Rd., Dundee; husband of Margaret Reid Nelson.
  • Personal Inscription "THY SON LIVETH" JNO. IV.51
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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