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Private JAMES GIFFEN

Service Number: 22012
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

No. 5 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY

III. A. 25.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Julia Grace Ross (formerly Giffen), of East Rd., Inglewood, Invercargill, New Zealand, and the late James Giffen.
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Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1539
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