Service Details
Name:
 CURRIE
Given Name:
 JOHN
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 S/13378
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1917-06-24
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of James and Elizabeth Currie, of 174, Russell Rd., Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. He left St Andrews College in December 1914 where he was a Senior Prefect, a Lieutenant in the Cadet Corps, Captain of the cricket XI. He was a 1915 Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College Oxford. Commemoration stone in Port Elizabeth (South End) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ARRAS MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Bay 9.

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