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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Division:
96th Field Coy.
Birth:
Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Death:
August 17, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 41.
Additional information
Son of James and Mary Ann Mitchell, of Springburn, Glasgow. Native of Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 579 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY Belgium
The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg road (N369) in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left, which is the Diksmuidseweg and carry on under the motorway bridge and the cemetery is another 300 metres on the left hand side of the road. N.B. Bard Cottage Cemetery is the first cemetery on the left, the second being Talana Farm Cemetery.
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