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Lt. William Blair
British Army 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.24th October 1942)
William Blair was born in 1914 and studied at Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and Balliol College, Oxford. He enlisted in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941 into the Seaforth Highlanders. He shipped out to the Middle East in 1942 and was killed in action in the Second Battle of El Alamein on 24th October 1942.