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George Spence

Private

Service No. 292547

Age 21

Died on 13 November 1916

Gordon Highlanders

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

Somme, France

Son of James W. and Helen Spence, of Nornagarth, North Yell, Shetland.

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Henry Harrison

George, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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George, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown...

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