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Military service
Service number:
90953
Age:
28
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
9th Brigade
Enlistment:
Ontario
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 43.
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Son of Helen Abercromby, of 57, Union Grove, Aberdeen, Scotland, and the late Alexander M. Abercromby.
Digital gallery of Bombardier Alexander Shand Abercromby
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 189 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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