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Gunner MATTHEW RUSSELL

Service Number: 344401
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

42nd Heavy Artillery Group

Date of Death

Died 15 July 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. D. 27.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Pte. William and Annie Russell, of Falkirk, Stirling.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HE NOBLY GAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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