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Private JOHN RAWES

Service Number: S/13483
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 January 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. D. 35.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Dinah Rawes, of Elterwater, Ambleside, Westmorland.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED IN FAITH OF VICTORY GREATLY BELOVED ELTERWATER
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1939
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