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Private JOHN BURNS

Service Number: 30930
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 September 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELGIAN BATTERY CORNER CEMETERY

I. L. 12.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (5428) 10th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jane B. MacDonald (formerly Burns), of 142, Gloucester St., Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS JOHN XV.13 HE BEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH
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Buried or commemorated at

BELGIAN BATTERY CORNER CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 573
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