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Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium
First Name: Oliver Francis Walter Last Name: WISEMAN
Date of Death: 30/11/1914 Lived/Born In: Marylebone
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Scottish Rifles1
Memorial Site: Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium

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The 1st Scottish Rifles battalion were part of 19 Brigade which at that time were not attached to any particular division but operating as part of III Corps. On 17th November, 1914 they left their billets in Bac St Maur and marched to Houplines, near Armetières and Ploegsteert and went into trenches at Frelinghien where they remained for the rest of the month and through into December. Oliver Wiseman was killed here on 30th November but there is no further information concerning his death.

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