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George Smith

Private

Service No. 4579

Age 19

Died on 24 July 1916

Gordon Highlanders

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Alexander and Eleanor Shand Smith, of 6, The Wynd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire.

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Henry Harrison

George, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. 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, but, as a former soldier in the 1st Lincolns and the...

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