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Personal data

• Name GORDON
• Initials JE
• First name JAMES ERNEST
• Place of birth Bucknall
• Country Staffordshire, England
• Last residence Stoke-On-Trent
• Family Son of William and Julia Gordon, of Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent; four brothers and four sisters; Miss Booth was his fiancee.
• Profession Coal miner

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Hanley
• Service number 18683
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers 87 Trench mortar battery
• Division - Brigade 87th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 29th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To Balkan in August 1915;

Death

• Wounded 8 August, collapsed while helping one of the wounded after a gas attack in the line
• Type of wounds Gas poisoning; died at 10.15 am, n°10 CCS
• Date of death 9 August 1916
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - D - 35A

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