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Corporal WILLIAM GIRVAN

Service Number: 2691991
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1940

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL

Plot 13. Row F. Grave 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Girvan, J.P. and Susannah Maria Zillah Girvan; husband of Janet Hunter Paterson Girvan, of Fallowfield, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription HIS NAME IS WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF GOLD IN THE HEARTS HE LEFT AT HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 4039
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