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Lieutenant WILLIAM BRIAN MORTIMER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

4th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 June 1915

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE BURIAL GROUND CEMETERY

AI. 10.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Brook Mortimer, of Hay Carr, Lancaster; husband of Enid Lucy Ann Mortimer. Served in the South African Campaign. His brother Edmund also fell.
  • Personal Inscription I WILL SPARE THEM AS A MAN SPARETH HIS OWN SON THAT SERVETH HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE BURIAL GROUND CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 586
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