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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Sloan Andrew
|Army number=1880164.
|Rank=Corporal
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Born 1915, Glasgow.  Mother's maiden surname McCracken.
|Age=(At time of death) 29.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.   Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 31/10/1944.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Served in No. 3 Platoon.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 31/10/1944.  Interred initially in   Re-buried in Grave 19. B. 12. at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads "LOVED HONOURED AND LONGED FOR ALWAYS".
|Home address=Son of William and Jemima Sloan (nee McCracken) of Glasgow.  Husband of Elizabeth Draper Sloan (nee Mitchell) of Glasgow. 
|Image Name=
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone - Cpl Andrew Sloan, 294th Field Company, RE.
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries.  There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.