58884 Private Alexander Rough of the 178th Company, Machine Gun Corps (and formerly 32762 Northumberland Fusiliers) was killed in action on the 15th August 1917. He was born in Smeafield, Northumberalnd, and enlisted at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was 23 years old, the son of John Robert and Emma Rough, of Scots Gap, Boulmer, Lesbury, Northumberland. He is buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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