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Lieutenant WILLIAM GLADSTONE BURN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment

1st/13th Kensington Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 May 1915

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

Panel 10.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Eldest son of Janet Gladstone Burn, of Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London, and the late Andrew Hall Burn. A Quantity Surveyor, joined London Scottish in 1908; gazetted to a Commission in "The Kensingtons" in 1913. Proceeded overseas Nov., 1914; appointed Signalling Officer on the Staff of 25th Infantry Brigade, March, 1915. Born in Edinburgh.
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