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Corporal WILLIAM AITKEN

Service Number: 218762
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

2nd Light Railway Operating Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1918

Age 46 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

A. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Alexander and Isabella Brown Aitken, of Innerleithen.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 124
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