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Signalman GEORGE WILLIAM GILLESPIE

Service Number: 2360663
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 27 December 1941

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADDIS ABABA WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 9.

Ethiopia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sydney Herbert and Louisa Irene Gillespie, of Newtown Butler, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TO-DAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

ADDIS ABABA WAR CEMETERY
Ethiopia
Number of casualties: 368
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