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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Monikie
• Land Dundee, Scotland
• Last residence 2 Duke Street, Arbroath
• Family Son of George and Margaret Taylor Paterson
• Profession Police-constable
• Extra info Husband of Mary A. PaterSon, of 2, Duke St., Arbroath, Forfarshire; three daughters.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment November 1915
• Service number RMA/1388(S)
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit Howitzer Bde. Royal Marine Artillery
• Other data related to military career To France September 1916; wounded July 1917, two months hospital

Death

• Wounded Shell burst through the roof of the barn where he had dinner; eight others also died and are buried in Lijssenthoek;
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 31
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVIII - D - 17

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