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Private JOHN SIM BURGESS

Service Number: 3430
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

"C" Coy. 1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1915

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

F. 65.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Helen Burgess; husband of Mary Colquhoun Burgess, of 46, Kilnside Rd., Paisley. Native of Paisley.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 345
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