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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:30 am Post subject: Glasgow Necropolis |
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Unable to identify ......
Donald Buchan Gordon, Lieutenant, Cameronians killed in action in Germany 26th March 1945 aged 28 years.
Third son of Robert Buchan Gordon (born at Whitehaven) and Agnes Robertson Gordon (nee Hamilton)
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kenmorrison
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 747
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Anne - is this your man?
Name: GORDON, OSWALD BUCHAN
Initials: O B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Age: 28
Date of Death: 26/03/1945
Service No: 65799
Additional information: Son of Robert Buchan Gordon and Agnes Robertson Gordon; husband of Iris Joy Gordon.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 58. E. 14.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Ken
ps Oswald B Gordon married Iris Norris March Q 1943 in Westminster (FreeBMD) |
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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Ken - that's him!
The letters on the stone in the Necropolis have all fallen off and all than remains are wee holes - I obviously wrongly guessed 'Duncan' when it should have been 'Oswald'.
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