Lieutenant William Hyde Eagleson Gordon

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• First name(s) William Hyde Eagleson
• Last name Gordon
• Year 1914-20
• Service number -
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment 8th Gordon Highlanders
• Service record Rank: Second Lieutenant, Corps: 8th Gordon Highlanders
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2380118
• Country Great Britain
• Medal type British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920
• Archive reference WO372/8
  

Lieutenant GORDON, WILLIAM HYDE EAGLESON

• Died 30/09/1915
• Aged 22
• 8th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
• Son of Maj. Archibald Alexander Gordon, C.B.E., M.V.O. and Maude Gordon, of Monksbarn, Maugersbury, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. Born at The Old Mill, Coalstoun, East Lothian. Educated Haileybury and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Studying for Holy Orders when war broke out and at once joined up.
  
• Buried at ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
• Location: Pas de Calais, France
• Cemetery/memorial reference: I. B. 17. CWGC
  

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