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Private THOMAS NELSON

Service Number: 2890141
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 June 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Marion Nelson, of Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS NAME IS WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF LOVE, IN THE HEARTS HE LEFT AT HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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