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Private William James Abercrombie

 

Abercrombie

 

Private William James Abercrombie, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service No. 41507. Formerly 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service Squadron) UD/279 and 2nd Regiment North Irish Horse. Son of Emily Brownlee (formerly Abercrombie) of Deerines, Florence Court, County Fermanagh. Enlisted Enniskillen. Residence Blacklion, County Cavan. Killed in action on 30 September 1918, aged 30. Buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.F.24. The gravestone inscription reads:

41507 PRIVATE

W. J. ABERCROMBIE

ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS

30TH SEPTEMBER 1918 AGE 30

THY WILL BE DONE

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.