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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:32 am    Post subject: Child of his time... Reply with quote

No Scottish connection here but I just came across this entry in the CWGC database and thought I'd share it. L/Bdr Morris was born in 1915...

MORRIS, JOFFRE FRENCH KITCHENER
Rank: Lance Bombardier
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 11 Field Regt.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 04/07/1942
Service No: 4913637
Additional information: Son of William Thomas Morris, and of Lydia Morris, of Wood End, Wolverhampton.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 33.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

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Location: Hawick, Scotland

PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As was:

Name: KERR, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Initials: N B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 22/05/1915
Service No: 1184
Additional information: Son of John and Margret Kerr, of 10, Parsons Green Terrace, Edinburgh. Born at Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: EDINBURGH (ROSEBANK) CEMETERY

Killed at Gretna.
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