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In memory of:

Lieutenant Colonel George Brenton Laurie

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Military service

Age: 47
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
Enlistment: Nova Scotia
Death: March 12, 1915

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VI. L. 15.
Additional information
Son of Lt. Gen. Laurie and Mrs. Laurie, of Halifax, Nova Scotia; husband of Florence C. V. Vere-Laurie, of Carlton Hall, Newark, Notts.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 567 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PONT-DU-HEM MILITARY CEMETERY Nord, France

Pont du Hem is a hamlet situated on the main road from La Bassee to Estaires. Follow the D 947 from La Bassee to Estaires for 10 kilometres and the PONT-DU-HEM MILITARY CEMETERY lies on the left hand side of the road 5 kilometres short of Estaires.

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