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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JOHN LAIRD

Service Number: 2766842
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMBURG CEMETERY

1A. G. 3.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Laird, and of Margaret Laird, of Galliagh, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER, IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

HAMBURG CEMETERY
Hamburg Germany
Number of casualties: 2566
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