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Private WILLIAM NELSON

Service Number: S/23883
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameron Highlanders

7th Bn

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

VII. F. 39.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Nelson; husband of Mary Ann Williamson Nelson, of 4 Caledonian St., Nairn,.
  • Personal Inscription A LIGHT HAS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD GONE A VOICE WE LOVED SO WELL
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Buried or commemorated at

ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3187
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