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Able Seaman WILLIAM GORDON BROWN

Service Number: London Z/1692
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Hawke Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

III. C. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Henderson Brown and Harriet Alice Brown, of 3, Blackford Rd., Edinburgh. Author of article in Philosophical Magazine of August, 1915, and of articles published in Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh, in July, 1922.
  • Personal Inscription QUI ANTE DIEM PERIIT SED MILES, SED PRO PATRIA
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