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Captain GEORGE BALFOUR BLACK

Regiment & Unit/Ship

17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1918

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. D. 10.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 13th Bn. Tank Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Adam Black and Louisa Whyte Balfour Black, of Underscar, Keswick. Born at Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED AT PROYART IN A SHORT TIME HE FULFILLED A LONG TIME R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2144
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