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Private WILLIAM STEPHEN MELVIN

Service Number: S/41789
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 April 1918

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

VII. D. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Anthony and Agnes Melvin, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription REMEMBERED JUST THE SAME TODAY AS AT THE HOUR HE PASSED AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1337
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