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Offline harribobs

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Re: Soldiers Died WW1 Lookups please
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 26 March 06 17:28 BST (UK) »

soorry but i've lost the thread here  ;D

who am i supposed to be looking up ?  ???

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« Reply #28 on: Sunday 26 March 06 19:08 BST (UK) »
Mack ............. for your records .................. Samuel AYRISS married Sally Elizabeth LEE at the parish church of St Paul, Sandgate, Kent 24 Dec 1887 so would be parents of Samuel John AYRISS who died 24 Feb 1915.

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L/cpl samuel,john ayriss
2nd batt cameronians[scottish rifles] c.company
10079
age 24
24-2-15,died of wounds
mother mrs s,e ayriss,28 kynaston rd,enfield middlesex
enlisted glasgow
lived sandgate
born sandgate
buried estaires communal cemetary
grave ref II.D.5

Why the Glasgow enlistment I don't know (his father appears - 1891 census - to be a bricklayer's lab from Crofton Northamptonshire) :-\

Harribobs ............... don't worry ............. I've got more to keep me busy for a while longer

Casalguidi :)
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