John Duvoisin

Second Lieutenant John Hurll Duvoisin was a Scottish officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 5 February 1891, in Partick,"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTF4-VZN : 8 December 2014), John Hurll Duvoisin, 05 Feb 1891; citing Partick, Lanark, Scotland, reference 79; FHL microfilm 255,146. the son of Swiss brick manufacturer Emile Francois and his wife Sara Duvoisin (née Hurll), of Glasgow. 
Educated at Glasgow High School, Duvoisin enlisted in September 1914, and was commissioned the following year, on 18 June, in the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry.The London Gazette (29216), p. 6565, thegazette.co.uk, 5 July 1915. Retrieved 14 October 2016.Highland Light Infantry Chronicle (Jan 1914-Apr 1914), p. 162. He died on 15 July 1916, during the Somme Offensive.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Duvoisin, John Hurll, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Category:1891 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Swiss descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Second Lieutenants