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Alexander Cranna Birnie

Corporal

Service No. 2436

Age 24

Died on 31 July 1916

Gordon Highlanders

CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

Somme, France

Son of George and Elizabeth Birnie; husband of Elizabeth Jane Birnie, of Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

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