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Sergeant David Bryce Gillespie

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Military service

Service number: 442909
Age: 36
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division: 29th Bn.
Birth: May 22, 1880 London, England
Enlistment: June 10, 1915 British Columbia
Death: September 12, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 6.E.3.
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Son of William and Grace Gillespie; husband of Louise Gwendoline Mutlow (nee Williams) Gillespie and father of William H. Gillespie of 'Iona', Woodland Grove, Weybridge, Surrey, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION Somme, France

Longueval is a village 40 kilometres north-east of Amiens and 12 kilometres east-north-east of Albert, a town on the D929 road from Amiens to Bapaume and Cambrai. From the D929 direction Bapaume-Albert take the 2nd turning for Martinpuich and continue along the D6 direction Longueval, for 2 kilometres. LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION sits on the right hand side of the road.

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