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• Name GEDDES
• Initials JM
• First name JOHN MACKENZIE
• Place of birth St. George's, Edinburgh
• Country Scotland
• Family Son of Charles and Isabella Geddes, of 2, Bruntsfield Terrace, Edinburgh.
• Education Architecture, in Edinburgh

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Edinburgh, Scotland
• Service number 650128
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 86th Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery "C" Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France on 24 October 1915;
  former number 455

Death

• Wounded 19 June, shell landed right in the lines killing 6 men outright and wounding 26, three afterwards dying of wounds, John been one of them; 27 horses were also killed;
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds legs and abdomen, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 21 June 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - E - 8

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