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Gilbert Aspin

Private

Service No. 21017

Age 21

Died on 5 September 1917

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

TYNE COT MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Benjamin and Ellen Aspin. of 257, Whalley New Rd., Blackburn.

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Gilbert, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Gilbert, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalio...

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