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| Name: |
Athelstan Ross GERRIE |
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| Casualty No.: |
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Ranks: |
Staff Sergeant |
Initials: |
A R |
Service No.: |
6139 |
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| Date of Birth : |
- |
Place of Birth : |
Sheffield, Yorkshire. |
Age at Death: |
0 |
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| Unit: |
2nd Bn Leicestershire Regiment, attached to Supply and Transport. |
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| Place Enlisted: |
Bradford, Yorkshire. |
| Place of Residence: |
Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. |
| Home Address: |
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| Previous Address: |
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| Civilian Employment: |
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| How Died: |
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| Date of Death: |
Thursday 27th July 1916 |
| Place of Death: |
Mesopotamia. |
| Battle/Campaign: |
Campaign in Mesopotamia. |
| Locally Commemorated: |
No |
| UK Commemorated: |
- |
| Overseas Commemorated: |
- |
| Buried: |
Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. |
| Decoration and Medals: |
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| Photographs: |
0 |
| Service Records: |
No |
| Death Notice/Obituary: |
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| Family Details: |
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| Notes : |
Possibly died as a Turkish prisoner of war as part of the 13,000 garrison under General Townsend which surrendered at Kut on 29th April 1916. |
| Sources Used: |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register.
Soldiers Died in the Great War.
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