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Private Alexander Cruickshanks
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Private Alexander Cruickshanks

Birth
England
Death
10 Oct 1918 (aged 21–22)
At Sea
Monument
Southampton, Southampton Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England Add to Map
Memorial ID
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47154 Private Alexander Cruickshanks.
The Royal Defence Corps.

Aged 22.
Son of William and Alice Ann Cruickshanks, of 7, Mayson Street, Blackburn.

He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
47154 Private Alexander Cruickshanks.
The Royal Defence Corps.

Aged 22.
Son of William and Alice Ann Cruickshanks, of 7, Mayson Street, Blackburn.

He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H

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