Albert Victor Brewer (abt. 1888 - 1918)

Born about 1888 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Ethel May Cosser — married 1913 in , District of Christchurch, Hampshire

Died 24 Mar 1918 at about age 30 in Flanders, France

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Notes for ALBERT VICTOR BREWER: Albert was killed in WW!. He enlisted in Bournemouth and joined the Gloucestershire Regiment, 13th (Service)Battalion (Forest of Dean). His regimental number was 37304 and he died of his wounds on 24th March 1918. He is Remembered with Honour at the Blargies Communal Cemetery Extension. Blargies is a village and commune in the Department of the Oise. the village of Blargies take the first left. . The Cemetery Extension stands on the north-east side of the Communal Cemetery, in an old apple orchard. Blargies became in 1916 an important centre of British and native labour attached to the dumps and depots at Abancourt; and in the same year it was found necessary to open an Extension of the Communal Cemetery for the burial of men who died in the hospitals of the Camp. The Extension was used until 1920. There are now nearly 250, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The grave of a Bermudan soldier was brought in from the COMMUNAL CEMETERY after the 1918 Armistice; and those of twelve German prisoners, four Italian laboureres and one American Y.M.C.A. worker were removed to other burial grounds. The Extension covers an area of 1,998 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall on three sides.

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