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Private WILLIAM BREBNER

Service Number: 290196
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 May 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. NICOLAS BRITISH CEMETERY

I. J. 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late William and Esther Brebner, of Aberdeen; husband of Elizabeth Clapperton Brebner, of 13, Granton Place, Aberdeen.
  • Personal Inscription TIME CHANGES MANY THINGS BUT LOVING MEMORY EVER CLINGS
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. NICOLAS BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 364
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