KIRKLAND, GEORGE
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Private
7407171
27/09/1944
34
Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 9th Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
II. D. 9.
Greater love hath no man than this.
That a man lay down his life for his friends
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Son of Sarah Ellen Kirkland.
According to his service records, he enlisted on 25 June 1942. He was 5 feet 4½ inches in height, with blue eyes and brown hair. He died of wounds on 27 September 1944.
Initial gravesite at Meerveldhoven.
