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Lieutenant ALEXANDER RANKIN

Service Number: 256419
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

II. B. 22.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 7th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Rankin and of Mary C. Rankin (nee Clement); husband of Margaret M. Rankin (nee Henderson), of Paisley, Renfrewshire.
  • Personal Inscription HUSBAND OF MARGARET M.RANKIN, THE BUSHES,PAISLEY,SCOTLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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