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Private JAMES RICHARDSON NELSON

Service Number: 96412
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Tank Corps

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)

Valley Cottages Cem. Mem. H. 5.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Ann Nelson, of 21, Newton St., Greenock.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2463
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